Soliton pulse compression in photonic band-gap fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 6153-6159

  Ouzounov, Dimitre G ^a   Hensley, Christopher J ^a   Gaeta, Alexander L ^a   Venkateraman, Natesan ^b   Gallagher, Michael T ^b   Koch, Karl W ^b  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^b Corning Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; SOLITONS;

HOLLOW-CORE PHOTONIC BAND-GAP FIBERS; OPTICAL COMPRESSION RATIO; PHOTONIC BAND-GAP FIBERS; SOLITON PULSE COMPRESSION; THIRD-ORDER DISPERSION;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 24044477240     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.006153     Document Type: Article

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