Synthesis of optical pulses by use of similaritons

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 5104-5109

  Finot, C ^a   Millot, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SOLITONS;

OPTICAL PULSES; PULSE PROPAGATION AND SOLITONS; PULSE SHAPING; SIMILARITONS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 9144220364     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.005104     Document Type: Article

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