Nearly exact optical beat-to-soliton train conversion based on comb-like profiled fiber emulating a polynomial dispersion decreasing profile

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1698-1700

  Ozeki, Yasuyuki ^a   Takasaka, Shigehiro ^a,b   Inoue, Takashi ^b   Igarashi, Koji ^b,c   Hiroishi, Jiro ^b   Sugizaki, Ryuichi ^b   Sakano, Misao ^b   Namiki, Shu ^b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO LTD   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optical fiber dispersion; Optical pulse compression; Optical pulse generation; Optical solitons

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; FIBER LASERS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

OPTICAL FIBER DISPERSION; OPTICAL PULSE COMPRESSION; OPTICAL PULSE GENERATION; OPTICAL SOLITONS;

SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

EID: 23844528085     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.851915     Document Type: Article

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