Effects of fourth-order fiber dispersion on ultrashort parabolic optical pulses in the normal dispersion regime

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2059-2065

  Bale, Brandon G ^a   Boscolo, Sonia ^a   Hammani, Kamal ^b   Finot, Christophe ^b  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS;

FIBER DISPERSION; FLAT-TOP; FOURTH ORDER DISPERSION; FOURTH-ORDER; HIGHLY NONLINEAR FIBERS; NORMAL DISPERSION; PARABOLIC PULSE; PULSE RESHAPING; SUPERCONTINUUM SPECTRA;

DISPERSIONS;

EID: 80052326093     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.28.002059     Document Type: Article

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