Suppressing the frequency chirp in optical solitons using coherent effects

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1655-1659

  Caetano, Dilson P ^a   Hickmann, Jandir M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; SOLITONS;

COHERENT EFFECTS; COHERENT PROPAGATION; FREQUENCY CHIRP; NONLINEAR DISPERSIVE WAVEGUIDE; OPTICAL SOLITONS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33750070325     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.23.001655     Document Type: Article

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