Effect of group delay ripple on picosecond pulse compression schemes

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 4702-4711

  Littler, Ian C M ^a   Fu, Libin ^a   Eggleton, Benjamin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHASE MODULATION;

APODIZATION TECHNIQUE; GROUP DELAY RIPPLE (GDR); OPTICAL GATING MEASUREMENTS; OPTICAL PULSES;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 23844444980     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.004702     Document Type: Article

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