Mid-infrared Raman-soliton continuum pumped by a nanotube-mode-locked sub-picosecond Tmdoped MOPFA

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 23261-23271

  Zhang, M ^a   Kelleher, E J R ^a   Runcorn, T H ^a   Mashinsky, V M ^b   Medvedkov, O I ^b   Dianov, E M ^b   Popa, D ^c   Milana, S ^c   Hasan, T ^c   Sun, Z ^c   Bonaccorso, F ^c,d   Jiang, Z ^c   Flahaut, E ^e,f   Chapman, B H ^a   Ferrari, A C ^c   Popov, S V ^a   Taylor, J R ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b FIBER OPTICS RESEARCH CENTER   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^f INSTITUT CARNOT CIRIMAT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSMISSIONS; MIDINFRARED; MODE-LOCKED; SOURCE OF LIGHT; THULIUM-DOPED FIBERS; TM-DOPED;

INFRARED DEVICES; LOCKS (FASTENERS); NANOTUBES; OPTICAL PUMPING;

SOLITONS;

EID: 84885438798     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.023261     Document Type: Article

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