Pulse shaping for a long-distance optical synchronization system

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E90-C, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 450-456

  Ilday, Fatih Ömer ^a,b   Winter, Axel ^c   Kärtner, Franz X ^b   Danailov, Miltcho B ^d  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^c DESY   (Germany)

^d SINCROTRONE TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accelerator; Femtosecond synchronization systems; Fiber laser; Ultra short pulse propagation

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL VARIABLES CONTROL; PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

FEMTOSECOND SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEMS; ULTRA-SHORT PULSE PROPAGATION;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33847094660     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: 17451353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e90-c.2.450     Document Type: Conference Paper

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