Simple pulse compression scheme based on filtering self-phase modulation-broadened spectrum and its application in an optical time-division multiplexing system

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 28, 2006, Pages 7524-7528

  Yang, Yanfu ^a   Lou, Caiyun ^a   Zhou, Hongbo ^a   Wang, Jiajun ^a   Gao, Yizhi ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHASE MODULATION;

HIGH PULSE EXTINCTION RATIO; OFFSET FILTERING; PEDESTAL-FREE; PULSE EXTINCTION;

TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 33750894465     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.007524     Document Type: Article

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