Information throughput of photorefractive spatial solitons in the telecommunication range

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 2683-2687

  Tiemann, M ^a   Schmidt, J ^a   Petrov, V M ^a   Petter, J ^a   Tschudi, T ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; THROUGHPUT;

ENERGY TRANSPORTATION; INFORMATION CHANNELS; PULSE TRANSFER RATE; WAVELENGTH RANGE;

SOLITONS;

EID: 34250712340     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.002683     Document Type: Article

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