Optical parabolic pulse generation and applications

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1482-1489

  Finot, Christophe ^a   Dudley, John M ^b   Kibler, Bertrand ^a   Richardson, David J ^c   Millot, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fiber amplifiers; Nonlinear dynamics; Optical pulse processing

Indexed keywords

NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; OPTICAL PARABOLIC PULSE; OPTICAL PULSE PROCESSING; PARABOLIC PULSE;

DYNAMICS; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; OPTICAL FIBERS;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 72949104147     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2009.2027446     Document Type: Conference Paper

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