Interaction between optical parabolic pulses in a Raman fiber amplifier

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 5825-5830

  Finot, Christophe ^a   Millot, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SOLITONS;

OPTICAL PARABOLIC PULSES; RAMAN FIBER AMPLIFIERS; RAMAN GAIN;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 23744456447     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.005825     Document Type: Article

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