Proposal for the generation of thz bursts and codes of shaped femtosecond pulses using binary masks

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 1732-1734

  Mínguez Vega, Gladys ^a   Mendoza Yero, Omel ^a   Lancis, Jesús ^a   Climent, Vicent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Optical pulse generation; Optical pulse shaping; Optical signal processing; Spectrally periodic filters

Indexed keywords

BINARY MASKS; FEMTOSECOND PULSE; HIGH REPETITION RATE; OPTICAL PULSE GENERATION; OPTICAL PULSE SHAPING; PULSE SEQUENCE; SPECTRALLY PERIODIC FILTERS; TEMPORAL WINDOWS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; LOCOMOTIVES; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; PULSE REPETITION RATE; PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS; RAILROAD CARS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 54249113789     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.905672     Document Type: Article

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