Widely tunable polarization maintaining photonic crystal fiber based parametric wavelength conversion

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 15826-15833

  Murray, Robert T ^a   Kelleher, Edmund J R ^a   Popov, Sergei V ^a   Mussot, Arnaud ^b   Kudlinski, Alexandre ^b   Taylor, James R ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UMR National Center for Scientific Research   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

ANTI-STOKES; OUTPUT POWER; PARAMETRIC WAVELENGTH CONVERSIONS; PARAMETRIC WAVELENGTHS; POLARIZATION-MAINTAINING PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER; PULSE DURATIONS; WIDELY TUNABLE;

PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

EID: 84879979257     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.015826     Document Type: Article

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