Optical limiting, pulse reshaping, and stabilization with a nonlinear absorptive fiber system

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 3387-3392

  He, Guang S ^a   Yuan, Lixiang ^a   Bhawalkar, Jayant D ^a   Prasad, Paras N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; DYES; LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS;

HOLLOW FIBER SYSTEM; OPTICAL LIMITING; OPTICAL STABILIZATION; PULSE RESHAPING; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0031145286     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.003387     Document Type: Article

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