Bouncing of a dispersive pulse on an accelerating soliton and stepwise frequency conversion in optical fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 14560-14565

  Gorbach, A V ^a   Skryabin, D V ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; RAMAN SCATTERING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLITONS;

PERIODIC REFLECTIONS; QUANTUM BOUNCING;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 35948990902     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.014560     Document Type: Article

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