Polarization-maintaining fiber pulse compressor by birefringent hollow-core photonic bandgap fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 12039-12048

  Shirakawa, Akira ^a   Tanisho, Motoyuki ^a   Ueda, Ken Ichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BIREFRINGENCE; LASER PULSES; PHASE MODULATION; PHOTONS;

EXTINCTION RATIO; FEMTOSECOND PULSES; POLARIZATION EXTINCTION;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 33845395949     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.012039     Document Type: Article

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