Ultra-flat SPM-broadened spectra in a highly nonlinear fiber using parabolic pulses formed in a fiber Bragg grating

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 7617-7622

  Parmigiani, Francesca ^a   Finot, Christophe ^a   Mukasa, Kazunori ^a   Ibsen, Morten ^a   Roelens, Michael A F ^a   Petropoulos, Periklis ^a   Richardson, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FIBER LASERS; LASER PULSES; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHASE MODULATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

HIGHLY NONLINEAR FIBER (HNLF); PULSE ENERGY; SELF-PHASE MODULATION (SPM); SUPERSTRUCTURED FIBER BRAGG GRATING (SSFBG);

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 33747762649     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.007617     Document Type: Conference Paper

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