Parabolic pulse generation through passive nonlinear pulse reshaping in a normally dispersive two segment fiber device

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 852-864

  Finot, Christophe ^a   Provost, Lionel ^a   Petropoulos, Periklis ^a   Richardson, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); LASER PULSES; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL FIBERS;

NONLINEAR FIBERS; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 33846890003     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.000852     Document Type: Article

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