Sub-two-cycle soliton-effect pulse compression at 800 nm in photonic crystal fibers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1410-1415

  Tognetti, Marco V ^a   Crespo, Helder M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION COMPENSATION; LASER PULSES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SOLITONS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; SUB-TWO-CYCLE TEMPORAL COMPRESSION;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 34347399331     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.24.001410     Document Type: Article

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