Giant tunable optical dispersion using chromomodal excitation of a multimode waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 23809-23817

  Diebold, Eric D ^a,b   Hon, Nick K ^a,b   Tan, Zhongwei ^a,f   Chou, Jason ^a,d   Sienicki, Todd ^a,e   Wang, Chao ^a,b   Jalali, Bahram ^a,b,c  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA NANOSYSTEMS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e Lasson Technologies Inc   (United States)

^f BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; CHROMATIC DISPERSION; DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DISPERSION COMPENSATION; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBERS; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS; WAVEGUIDES;

ANGULAR DISPERSIONS; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CHIRPED FIBER BRAGG GRATING; CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATIONS; DISPERSION COMPENSATING FIBERS; DISPERSIVE DEVICES; DISPERSIVE ELEMENTS; FIBER OPTIC COMMUNICATIONS; MODAL DISPERSION; MULTI-MODE WAVEGUIDES; MULTIMODE OPTICAL FIBERS; OPERATIONAL BANDWIDTH; OPTICAL DISPERSION; OPTICAL PULSE; PEAK POWER; PULSEWIDTHS; REPETITION RATE; SINGLE-SHOT;

DISPERSIONS;

ARTICLE; COLOR; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COLOR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 82055188450     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.023809     Document Type: Article

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