Femtosecond pulses at 20 GHz repetition rate through spectral masking of a phase modulated signal and nonlinear pulse compression

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 5671-5676

  Chapman, B H ^a   Doronkin, A V ^b   Stone, J M ^c   Knight, J C ^c   Popov, S V ^a   Taylor, J R ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NTO IRE POLUS   (Russian Federation)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; PHASE MODULATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; SOLITONS;

FEMTOSECOND REGIMES; NONLINEAR PULSE COMPRESSION; PHASE MODULATED SIGNALS; PICO-SECOND PULSE; REPETITION RATE; SOLITON COMPRESSION; SPECTRAL MASKING; TAPERED PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 84875152744     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.005671     Document Type: Article

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