Direct observation of soliton and normal pulse propagation by spectral domain reflectometry

Optics Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 14, 1996, Pages 1023-1025

  Levanon, Amikam ^a   Friberg, Stephen R ^a   Mukai, Takaaki ^a   Fujii, Yoichi ^b  

^a Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHASE SHIFT; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SOLITONS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

NONLINEAR SCHRODINGER EQUATIONS; NONSOLITON PULSES; OPTICAL TIME RESOLVED SPECTRAL DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; SPECTRAL BREATHING; SPECTRAL BROADENING;

REFLECTOMETERS;

EID: 5244314496     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.21.001023     Document Type: Article

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