Broadband noise filtering in random sequences of coherent pulses using the temporal Talbot effect

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 914-922

  Fernández Pousa, Carlos R ^a   Mateos, Felipe ^a   Chantada, Laura ^b   Flores Arias, María Teresa ^b   Bao, Carmen ^b   Pérez, María Victoria ^b   Gómez Reino, Carlos ^b  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER PULSES; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

BROADBAND NOISE; COHERENT PULSES; MICROWAVE SPECTRUM; TALBOT EFFECT;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 10044246080     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.21.000914     Document Type: Article

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