Spectral-Smoothing and Pedestal Reduction of Wavelength Tunable Quasi-Adiabatically Compressed Femtosecond Solitons Using a Dispersion-Flattened Dispersion-Imbalanced Loop Mirror

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 230-232

  Tamura, K R ^a   Nakazawa, M ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optical pulse compression; Optical pulse shaping; Optical soliton

Indexed keywords

MIRRORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SOLITONS;

OPTICAL PULSE COMPRESSION; OPTICAL PULSE SHAPING;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0033079452     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.740713     Document Type: Article

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