10-GHz, over 20-Channel Multiwavelength Pulse Source by Slicing Super-Continuum Spectrum Generated in Normal-Dispersion Fiber

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 322-324

  Takushima, Yuichi ^a   Kikuchi, Kazuro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Kerr effect; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical propagation in nonlinear media; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

MULTIWAVELENGTH PULSE SOURCE;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 0033100411     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.748222     Document Type: Article

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