Path average measurements of optical fiber nonlinearity using solitons

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2328-2334

  Andersen, John K ^a,c   Lou, Janet W ^b,c   Nowak, George A ^a,c   Xia, Tiejun ^a,c   Islam, Mohammed N ^a,c   Fortenberry, Rance M ^b,d,e   Newton, Steve A ^a,d  

^a OSA ^*  (United States)

^b IEEE

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^e Hewlett Packard Lightwave Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion; Nonlinearity; Optical communications; Optical fiber

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SOLITONS;

CORNING DISPERSION SHIFTED FIBERS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0032291521     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.736599     Document Type: Article

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