Selection of extreme events generated in raman fiber amplifiers through spectral offset filtering

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 205-213

  Finot, Christophe ^a   Hammani, Kamal ^a   Fatome, Julien ^a   Dudley, John M ^b   Millot, Guy ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE INTERDISCIPLINAIRE CARNOT DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b FEMTO ST INSTITUTE   (France)

Author keywords

Extreme events; Nonlinear optics; Raman fiber amplifiers

Indexed keywords

BROADENED SPECTRA; EXTREME EVENTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PULSED SIGNALS; RAMAN FIBER AMPLIFIERS; SPECTRAL EVOLUTION; SPECTRAL SLICING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBERS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 73949099681     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2009.2030513     Document Type: Article

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