Compensation of nonlinear phase shifts with third-order dispersion in short-pulse fiber amplifiers

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 4869-4877

  Zhou, Shian ^a   Kuznetsova, Lyuba ^a   Chong, Andy ^a   Wise, Frank W ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSTRUCTURE; NONLINEAR OPTICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PHASE SHIFT; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CHIRPED-PULSE AMPLIFICATION (CPA); GROUP-VELOCITY DISPERSION (GVD); NONLINEAR PHASE SHIFTS; OPTICAL PULSES;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 22744432255     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.004869     Document Type: Article

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