Synthesis of picosecond parabolic pulses formed by a long period fiber grating structure and its application for flat-top supercontinuum generation

OFC/NFOEC 2008 - 2008 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Slavík, Radan ^a   Park, Yongwoo ^b   Ahn, Tae Jung ^b   Azaña, José ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHOTONICS AND ELECTRONICS   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS;

DISPERSION-SHIFTED FIBER; FIBER OPTIC; FLAT-TOP; GAUSSIAN PULSES; LONG PERIOD FIBER GRATING; NONLINEAR PROPAGATIONS; OPTICAL-; PARABOLIC PULSES; PICO SECONDS; SPECTRAL RESPONSES; SUPER-CONTINUUM GENERATION;

FIBERS;

EID: 49349117762     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OFC.2008.4528570     Document Type: Conference Paper

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