Wavelength-tunable multicolor Raman soliton generation using an ellipse polarized pump pulse and highly birefringent optical fibers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 805-809

  Kato, Masao ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optical frequency conversion; Optical Kerr effect; Optical solitons; Raman lasers

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; RAMAN SCATTERING; TUNING; WAVELENGTH;

MULTICOLOR RAMAN SOLITON; OPTICAL SOLITONS; RAMAN LASERS; WAVELENGTH CROSSTALK;

SOLITONS;

EID: 33947614703     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.862451     Document Type: Article

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