Simultaneous optical pulse compression and wing reduction
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- 31 March 1986
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 48 (13) , 823-825
Abstract
We report the compression of picosecond optical pulses with a simultaneous reduction of the pulse wings by using a combination of both the self-phase modulation and nonlinear birefringence effects in a modified optical-fiber pulse compressor.Keywords
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