Generation of dark solitons by interaction between similaritons in Raman fiber amplifiers

Optical Fiber Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 217-226

  Finot, Christophe ^a   Dudley, John M ^b   Millot, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b FEMTO ST INSTITUTE   (France)

Author keywords

Nonlinear optics; Optical fibers; Optical similariton; Pulse shaping; Raman amplifiers

Indexed keywords

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RAMAN SCATTERING;

OPTICAL SIMILARITON; PULSE SHAPING; RAMAN AMPLIFIERS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 33646884581     PISSN: 10685200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yofte.2006.02.002     Document Type: Article

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