Effect of anti-crossings with cladding resonances on ultrafast nonlinear dynamics in gas-filled photonic crystal fibers

F. Tani; F. Köttig; D. Novoa; R. Keding; P. St.J. Russell

doi:10.1364/PRJ.6.000084

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