Supercontinuum generation in a photonic crystal fibre using picosecond pulses at 1550 nm

International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 66-69

  Andersen, P A ^a   Peucheret, C ^a   Hilligsoe K M ^b   Berg, K S ^a   Hansen, K P ^c   Jeppesen, P ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

nonlinearities; photonic crystal fibre; pulse source; supercontinuum; wavelength conversion

Indexed keywords

CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; COSTS; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; NETWORK ROUTING; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION; TRANSPARENT OPTICAL NETWORKS;

1550 NM; BAND PASS FILTERING; OPTICAL CLOCKS; PICO-SECOND PULSE; PULSE SOURCES; PULSEWIDTHS; SUPER CONTINUUM;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 84929624348     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21627339     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON.2003.1264581     Document Type: Conference Paper

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