200 fs soliton pulse generation at 10 GHz through nonlinear compression of transform-limited pulses from an electroabsorption modulator

Electronics Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 1995, Pages 740-741

  Guy, M J ^a   Chernikov, S V ^a   Taylor, J R ^a   Moodie, D G ^b   Kashyap, R ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electroabsorption modulators; Gratings in fibres; Soliton transmission

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975558781     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19950502     Document Type: Article

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