All-optical tunable delay line based on soliton self-frequency shift and filtering broadened spectrum due to self-phase modulation

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 7895-7902

  Oda, Shoichiro ^a   Maruta, Akihiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY MODULATION; OPTICS; PHASE MODULATION; SOLITONS;

ALL-OPTICAL TUNABLE DELAY LINE; DELAY-TO-PULSE-WIDTH RATIO; SELF-FREQUENCY SHIFT; SELF-PHASE MODULATION;

ELECTRIC DELAY LINES;

EID: 33747805607     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.007895     Document Type: Conference Paper

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