Design, fabrication, and characterization of a highly nonlinear few-mode fiber

Jitao Gao; Elham Nazemosadat; Chen Yang; Songnian Fu; Ming Tang; Weijun Tong; Joel Carpenter; Jochen Schröder; Magnus Karlsson; Peter A. Andrekson

doi:doi:10.1364/PRJ.7.001354

Photonics Research, 2019, 7 (11): 11001354, Published Online: Nov. 1, 2019

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Jitao Gao ^1†Elham Nazemosadat ^2†Chen Yang ³Songnian Fu ^1,*Ming Tang ¹Weijun Tong ³Joel Carpenter ⁴Jochen Schröder ²Magnus Karlsson ²Peter A. Andrekson ²

Author Affiliations

¹ Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, and School of Optics and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

² Photonics Laboratory, Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg 41296, Sweden

³ State Key Laboratory of Optical Fiber and Cable Manufacture Technology, Yangtze Optical Fiber and Cable Joint Stock Limited Company (YOFC), Wuhan 430073, China

⁴ School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia

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Jitao Gao, Elham Nazemosadat, Chen Yang, Songnian Fu, Ming Tang, Weijun Tong, Joel Carpenter, Jochen Schröder, Magnus Karlsson, Peter A. Andrekson. Design, fabrication, and characterization of a highly nonlinear few-mode fiber[J]. Photonics Research, 2019, 7(11): 11001354.

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