10-GHz 1.3-ps pulse generation using chirped soliton compression in a Raman gain medium

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1424-1426

  Murphy, T E ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical propagation in nonlinear media; Optical pulse compression; Optical pulse generation; Optical solitons; Raman scattering

Indexed keywords

CHIRPED SOLITON COMPRESSION; PULSE GENERATION; RAMAN GAIN MEDIUM;

LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; RAMAN SCATTERING; SOLITONS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0036772174     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2002.801828     Document Type: Article

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