Femtosecond Pulse Generation from Semiconductor Lasers Using the Soliton-Effect Compression Technique

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 592-600

  Ahmed, Khawaja Aamer ^a   Chan, Kai Choong ^a   Liu, Hai Feng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; BIREFRINGENCE; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SWITCHING SYSTEMS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; FEMTOSECOND PULSE GENERATION; GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; NONLINEAR OPTICAL LOOP MIRRORS; SELF PHASE MODULATION; SOLITON EFFECT COMPRESSION;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0029322680     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: 15584542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.401246     Document Type: Article

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