Spectrum reshaping and pulse self-compression in normally dispersive media with negatively chirped femtosecond pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 979-987

  Liu, Jun ^a   Chen, Xiaowei ^a   Liu, Jiansheng ^a   Zhu, Yi ^a   Leng, Yuxin ^a   Dai, Jun ^a   Li, Ruxin ^a   Xu, Zhizhan ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

FEMTOSECOND PULSES; FWHM BANDWIDTH; SPECTRAL RED-SHIFT;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 31144464250     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.14.000979     Document Type: Conference Paper

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