Coherent transient optical signal processing without brief pulses

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 278-285

  Merkel, K D ^a   Babbitt, W R ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Frequency chirped reference pulses; Optical coherent transients; Optical signal processing

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ATOMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; VECTORS;

CONVOLUTION; DELAYED REPHRASING; DIAGRAMMATIC METHOD; FREQUENCY CHIRPED REFERENCE PULSES; INHOMOGENEOUSLY BROADENED ABSORBER; OPTICAL COHERENT TRANSIENTS; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0029679045     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.000278     Document Type: Article

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