Tunable enhancement of a soliton spectrum using an acoustic long-period grating

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 13457-13462

  Bolger, J A ^a   Luan, F ^a   Yeom, D I ^a   Tsoy, E N ^a   De Sterke, C M ^a   Eggleton, B J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; OPTICAL FIBERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ACOUSTIC FREQUENCY; ACOUSTIC LONG-PERIOD GRATING; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; TUNABLE SHAPING;

SOLITONS;

EID: 35148832461     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.013457     Document Type: Article

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