Sub-picosecond phase-sensitive optical pulse characterization on a chip

Nature Photonics

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 618-623

  Pasquazi, Alessia ^a   Peccianti, Marco ^a,b   Park, Yongwoo ^a   Little, Brent E ^c   Chu, Sai T ^c   Morandotti, Roberto ^a   Azaña, José ^a   Moss, David J ^d  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c INFINERA CORPORATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 80053562456     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2011.199     Document Type: Article

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