Determination of actual interaction length for self-frequency shift of Raman solitons and their independence of pump intensities

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1386-1388

  Kato, M ^a   Mori, Y ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optical frequency conversion; Optical Kerr effect; Optical solitons; Raman lasers

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL PUMPING; RAMAN SCATTERING;

FREQUENCY SHIFT; NONLINEAR FIBER; OPTICAL SOLITONS; PUMP INTENSITIES; RAMAN LASERS; RAMAN SOLITON PULSES;

OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS;

EID: 33745127342     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.875330     Document Type: Article

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