Large tunable optical delays via self-phase modulation and dispersion

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 12022-12027

  Okawachi, Yoshitomo ^a   Sharping, Jay E ^a   Xu, Chris ^a   Gaeta, Alexander L ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHASE MODULATION; TUNING;

SPECTRAL BROADENING; SPECTRAL FILTERING; TUNABLE DELAYS;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 33845384567     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.012022     Document Type: Article

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