High-repetition-rate soliton-train generation using fiber Bragg gratings

Optics Express

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 411-417

  Litchinitser, N M ^a   Agrawal, G P ^a   Eggleton, B J ^b   Lenz, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SOURCES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PULSE MODULATION; SOLITONS;

GRATINGS; PULSE COMPRESSION; PULSE PROPAGATION AND SOLITONS; SOURCES;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 0009711272     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.3.000411     Document Type: Article

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