High compression of similariton pulses under the influence of higher-order effects

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 833-838

  Kruglov, Vladimir I ^a   Méchin, David ^a   Harvey, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); FIBER AMPLIFIERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PULSE COMPRESSION; PUMPING (LASER);

HIGHER-ORDER EFFECTS; SIMILARITON PULSES;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 34248382544     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.24.000833     Document Type: Article

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