Propagation of short pulses in an active nonlinear two-core optical fiber

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1597-1602

  Liu, Min ^a   Chiang, Kin Seng ^b   Shum, Ping ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; LASER PULSES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; Q SWITCHING;

ACTIVE COUPLER; COUPLING COEFFICIENT DISPERSION; GAIN BANDWIDTH; GAIN SATURATION; NONLINEAR COUPLER; OPTICAL PULSES; PULSE SWITCHING; TWO CORE FIBER;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 7444227628     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2004.836025     Document Type: Article

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