White light supercontinuum generation in a Y-shaped microstructured tapered fiber pumped at 1064 nm

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 14535-14540

  Cascante Vindas, J ^a   Diez, A ^a   Cruz, J L ^a   Andres M V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSTRUCTURE;

AIR-FILLING FRACTION; CONFINEMENT LOSS; LONG WAVELENGTH; SHORT WAVELENGTHS; SPECTRAL COMPONENTS; SUPER CONTINUUM; WHITE-LIGHT SUPERCONTINUUM; ZERO-DISPERSION WAVELENGTH;

SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

EID: 84886951367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.014535     Document Type: Article

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