Simultaneous amplification and compression of ultrashort solitons in an erbium-doped nonlinear amplifying fiber loop mirror

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 555-561

  Wai, Ping Kong A ^a   Cao, Wen Hua ^a,b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b Wuyi University   (China)

Author keywords

Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical pulse amplification; Optical pulse compression; Optical solitons; Optical switching

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SELF PHASE MODULATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOLITONS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

OPTICAL PULSE COMPRESSION;

MIRRORS;

EID: 0037382046     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2003.809327     Document Type: Article

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