Pulse Propagation in a Short Nonlinear Graded-Index Multimode Optical Fiber

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 2803-2811

  Mafi, Arash ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Milwaukee   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber nonlinear optics; four wave mixing; optical fibers

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008530155     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: 15582213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2012.2208215     Document Type: Article

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