Soliton compression to few-cycle pulses with a high quality factor by engineering cascaded quadratic nonlinearities

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 27071-27082

  Zeng, Xianglong ^a,b   Guo, Hairun ^a   Zhou, Binbin ^a   Bache, Morten ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b School of Communication and Information Engineering   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASCADED QUADRATIC NONLINEARITY; COMPRESSED PULSE; COMPRESSION FACTOR; CUBIC NONLINEARITIES; EFFECTIVE ORDER; FEW-CYCLE; FEW-CYCLE PULSE; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH QUALITY FACTORS; MULTI-SECTION; NONLINEAR CRYSTALS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PULSE QUALITY; RESIDUAL PHASE; SELF-DEFOCUSING; SOLITON COMPRESSION;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; LASER PULSES; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS;

SOLITONS;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; DATA COMPRESSION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84870576599     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.027071     Document Type: Conference Paper

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