Tunable vacuum-UV to visible ultrafast pulse source based on gas-filled Kagome-PCF

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 10942-10953

  Mak, Ka Fai ^a   Travers, John C ^a   Hölzer, Philipp ^a   Joly, Nicolas Y ^a,b   Russell, Philip St J ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; RADIATION EFFECTS; SOLITONS;

AXIAL PRESSURE GRADIENTS; DISPERSIVE WAVES; HIGH QUALITY; HOLLOW CORE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER; PULSE ENERGIES; PUMP PULSE; RELATIVE BANDWIDTH; ULTRAFAST PULSE;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; GAS; ILLUMINATION; REFRACTOMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VACUUM; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GASES; LIGHTING; REFRACTOMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VACUUM;

GAS;

EID: 84878590654     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.010942     Document Type: Article

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