Information processing with longitudinal spectral decomposition of ultrafast pulses

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Saperstein, Robert E ^a   Fainman, Yeshaiahu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BRAGG GRATINGS; DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

FIBER FREE SPACE SYSTEMS; MICROWAVE SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL DECOMPOSITION; ULTRAFAST PULSES;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 41449103938     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.000A21     Document Type: Article

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