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:10.1364/PRJ.7.001354

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