Ir low dispersion soliton waveguides written with low power lasers

Romanian Reports in Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 492-506

  Petris, A ^a   Popescu, S T ^a   Vlad, V I ^a   Fazio, E ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LASER   (Romania)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dispersion; Lithium niobate; Soliton waveguides; Ultrashort pulses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867074823     PISSN: 12211451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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