Using GRENOUILLE to characterize asymmetric femtosecond pulses undergoing self- and cross-phase modulation in a polarization-maintaining optical fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 3063-3073

  Khubchandani, Bhaskar ^a   Silva, A Christian ^a   Guzdar, Parvez N ^a   Roy, Rajarshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTONS;

CROSS-PHASE MODULATION (XPM); OPTICAL SPECTROGRAMS; OPTICAL TIME-TRACE; ULTRAFAST MEASUREMENTS;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 2942733241     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.003063     Document Type: Article

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