Arbitrary-order all-fiber temporal differentiator based on a fiber bragg grating: design and experimental demonstration

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 19798-19807

  Li, Ming ^a   Janner, Davide ^b   Yao And, Jianping ^a   Pruneri, Valerio ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BRAGG GRATINGS; DESIGN; FIBERS;

ARBITRARY ORDER; CONTROLLABLE BANDWIDTHS; DIFFERENTIATORS; DISCRETE LAYER PEELINGS; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; IMPORTANT FEATURES; INDEX MODULATION; WINDOWING FUNCTION;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FIBERS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 70749157418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.019798     Document Type: Article

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