Axial spectral scans of polarization dependent third harmonic generation in a multimode photonic crystal fiber

Journal of the European Optical Society

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Lorenc, D ^a   Bugar, I ^a   Uherek, F ^a   Szpulak, M ^b   Urbanczyk, W ^b   Zheltikov, A M ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL LASER CENTER   (Slovakia)

^b WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Axial scan; Photonic crystal fiber; Third harmonic generation

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL CUTTING; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; FIBERS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC GENERATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHASE MATCHING; POLARIZATION; SILICA;

AXIAL SCAN; CR : FORSTERITE LASER; ENERGY EXCITATION; NON DESTRUCTIVE; NONLINEAR SIGNALS; NONLINEAR-OPTICAL TRANSFORMATION; POLARIZATION-SWITCHED; PROPAGATION DISTANCES;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 84879793740     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19902573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2971/jeos.2007.07001     Document Type: Article

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