Dispersion controlled highly nonlinear fibers for all-optical processing at telecoms wavelengths

Optical Fiber Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 378-391

  Feng, Xian ^a   Poletti, Francesco ^a   Camerlingo, Angela ^a   Parmigiani, Francesca ^a   Petropoulos, Periklis ^a   Horak, Peter ^a   Ponzo, Giorgio M ^a   Petrovich, Marco ^a   Shi, Jindan ^a   Loh, Wei H ^a   Richardson, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

All optical processing; Chromatic dispersion control; Highly nonlinear fiber; Microstructured optical fiber; Non silica glass fiber

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIC DISPERSION; GLASS FIBERS; LEAD COMPOUNDS; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SILICA; SILICATES;

ALL-OPTICAL PROCESSING; CHROMATIC DISPERSION CONTROLS; HIGHLY NONLINEAR FIBERS; MICRO-STRUCTURED OPTICAL FIBERS; NON-SILICA GLASS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 78649691905     PISSN: 10685200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yofte.2010.09.014     Document Type: Article

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