Parabolic and hyper-Gaussian similaritons in fiber amplifiers and lasers with gain saturation

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 8741-8754

  Kruglov, Vladimir I ^a   Aguergaray, Claude ^a   Harvey, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

GAIN SATURATION; NORMAL DISPERSION; PARABOLIC PULSE; SATURATION ENERGY; SCHRDINGER EQUATIONS; SELF-SIMILAR; SIMILARITONS;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84860161203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.008741     Document Type: Article

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