Parabolic pulse generation with active or passive dispersion decreasing optical fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 15824-15835

  Finot, Christophe ^a   Barviau, Benoit ^a   Millot, Guy ^a   Guryanov, Alexej ^b   Sysoliatin, Alexej ^c   Wabnitz, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY OF HIGH PURITY SUBSTANCES   (Russian Federation)

^c FIBER OPTICS RESEARCH CENTER   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; OPTICAL GAIN;

PARABOLIC PULSE GENERATION;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 36749033707     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.015824     Document Type: Article

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