Maximizing the opening of eye diagrams for slow-light systems

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 26, 2007, Pages 6513-6519

  Pant, Ravi ^a   Stenner, Michael D ^a,b   Neifeld, Mark A ^a,b   Shi, Zhimin ^c   Boyd, Robert W ^c   Gauthier, Daniel J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LASER PULSES; METRIC SYSTEM; OPTIMIZATION; TIME DELAY;

CONSTRAIN DATA; OPTICAL PULSE DELAY; SUPER-GAUSSIAN PULSES;

DISTORTION (WAVES);

EID: 36749072952     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.006513     Document Type: Article

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