Nonlinearity management: A route to high-energy soliton fiber lasers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 470-476

  Ilday, Fatih Ö ^a   Wise, Frank W ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR OPTICS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHASE SHIFT; SOLITONS;

NONLINEARITY MANAGEMENT;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0000371341     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.000470     Document Type: Conference Paper

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