Nonlinear propagation of negatively chirped pulses: Maximizing the peak intensity at the output of a fiber probe

Optics Express

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 210-214

  Myaing, Mon Thiri ^a   Urayama, Junji ^a   Braun, Alan ^a,b   Norris, Theodore B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b SARNOFF CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; OPTIMIZATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SELF PHASE MODULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NEAR-FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY (NSOM); PRE-CHIRPED PULSES; ULTRAFAST PROCESSES IN FIBERS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0000239681     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.7.000210     Document Type: Article

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