Supercontinuum generation from a Cr4+:YAG laser using a soft-glass extruded PCF

OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics Series

Volumn 94, Issue , 2004, Pages 78-83

  Sorokin, Evgeni ^a   Naumov, Sergei ^a   Kalashnikov, Vladimir V ^a   Sorokina, Irina T ^a   Kumar, V V Ravi Kanth ^b   George, A K ^b   Knight, J C ^b   Russell, P St J ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIODES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

NONLINEARITY; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION; THIRD HARMONIC GENERATION;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 8744256425     PISSN: 10945695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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