50 fs soliton compression of optical clock pulse recovered from NRZ data injected SOAFL

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 9525-9530

  Lin, Gong Ru ^a   Lin, Yu Chan ^a,b   Lin, Kuen Cherng ^b   Lee, Wei Yu ^b   Wu, Chung Lun ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; DISPERSION COMPENSATION; FIBER LASERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SOLITONS;

AVERAGE POWER; DUTY CYCLES; FS PULSE; LINEAR DISPERSION COMPENSATION; MODE-LOCKED; MODELOCKING; NONLINEAR COMPRESSION; OPTICAL CLOCKS; PULSEWIDTHS; RETURN-TO-ZERO; SOLITON COMPRESSION; SPECTRAL LINE WIDTH; TIME-BANDWIDTH PRODUCTS;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 77952017928     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.009525     Document Type: Article

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