Widely wavelength-tunable 40 GHz femtosecond pulse source based on compression of externally-modulated pulse using 1.4 km comb-like profiled fibre

Electronics Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 797-798

  Igarashi, K ^a   Tobioka, H ^a   Takahashi, M ^a   Yagi, T ^a   Namiki, S ^a  

^a FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOLITONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

SOLITON COMPRESSION; SOLITON TRAIN; TEMPORAL WIDTH; WAVELENGTH;

LIGHT MODULATION;

EID: 22944442242     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20051506     Document Type: Article

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