Designing tapered holey fibers for soliton compression

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 192-198

  Tse, Ming Leung V ^a   Horak, Peter ^a   Poletti, Francesco ^a   Richardson, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fiber design and fabrication; Microstructure optical fibers; Pulse compression methods

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); PULSE COMPRESSION; SOLITONS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

FEMTOSECOND SOLITONS; HOLEY FIBERS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 38349015022     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2007.910446     Document Type: Article

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