Nonlinear transmission properties of hydrogenated amorphous silicon core optical fibers

P Mehta1, N Healy, N F Baril

  • 1Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.

Optics Express
|August 20, 2010
PubMed

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