On the profile of pulses generated by fiber lasers:the highly-chirped positive dispersion regime (similariton)

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 12174-12182

  Bélanger, Pierre André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FIBER LASERS; RAMAN SCATTERING;

GINZBURG LANDAU EQUATION; LASER SYSTEMS; SELF STEEPENING (SS); SIMILARITONS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 33845425993     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.012174     Document Type: Article

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