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The Supercontinuum Laser Source

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This chapter documents progress in the extensive area of supercontinuum (SC) generation research devoted to applications in telecommunications, including research into the different mechanisms of spectral broadening and their interplay, SC generation in various media and the most promising SC applications in fibre-based and free-space telecom.

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This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (FSUS-2020-0036); Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant No. 18-29-20025). The work of S.K.T. was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (Grant No. 17-72-30006). The work of J.D.A.C. was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Grant RTI2018-097957-B-C33) and Comunidad de Madrid (Grant S2018/NMT-4326).

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Smirnov, S.V., Ania-Castañón, J.D., Kobtsev, S., Turitsyn, S.K. (2022). Supercontinuum in Telecom Applications. In: Alfano, R.R. (eds) The Supercontinuum Laser Source. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06197-4_9

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