All-optical temporal integration of ultrafast pulse waveforms

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 17817-17825

  Park, Yongwoo ^a   Ahn, Tae Jung ^a,c   Dai, Yitang ^b   Yao, Jianping ^b   Azaña, José ^a  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c Chosun University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PHOTONIC INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY;

ALL OPTICAL COMPUTING; OPTICAL WAVEFORM; PHOTONIC INTEGRATIONS; PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS; TEMPORAL FEATURES; TEMPORAL INTEGRATION; ULTRA HIGH SPEED; ULTRAFAST PULSE;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 55349140779     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.017817     Document Type: Article

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