All-fiber source of 20-fs pulses at 1550 nm using two-stage linear-nonlinear compression of parabolic similaritons

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 1831-1833

  Kibler, B ^a   Billet, C ^a   Lacourt, P A ^a   Ferriere, R ^a   Dudley, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Optical fiber amplifiers; Solitons; Ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

1550 NM; ALL FIBER; CHIRPED PULSE; COMPRESSOR DESIGNS; FIBER COMPRESSORS; FREQUENCY-RESOLVED OPTICAL GATINGS; FS PULSE; HIGHLY NONLINEAR FIBERS; LINEAR COMPRESSION; NONLINEAR COMPRESSION; OPTICAL CYCLES; PARABOLIC PULSE; SIMILARITONS; TWO STAGE; ULTRAFAST OPTICS;

COMPRESSORS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FIBER OPTIC COMPONENTS; FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS; PULSE GENERATORS; SOLITONS;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34248354322     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.880728     Document Type: Article

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