Temporal reshaping of picosecond pulses at 1548 nm based on soliton emission and spatial filtering in nonuniform Ti:PPLN waveguides

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2373-2375

  Pioger, Paul Henri ^a   Couderc, Vincent ^a   Grossard, Ludovic ^a   Barthélémy, Alain ^a   Baronio, Fabio ^b   De Angelis, Costantino ^b   Min, Yoohong ^c   Quiring, Victor ^c   Sohler, Wolfgang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

All optical device; Devices; Nonlinear optics; Pulse propagation and solitons; Ultrafast nonlinear optics

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM NIOBATE; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; SOLITONS;

ALL-OPTICAL DEVICE; PULSE PROPAGATION AND SOLITONS; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR OPTICS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 27744589566     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.857580     Document Type: Article

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