Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 24, Issue 8, 1067(2004)

Amplification and Compression of Ultrashort Solitons in an Erbium-Doped Nonlinear Amplifying Fiber Loop Mirror Ⅰ. Basic Principles

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    [1] Wenhua Cao, Songhao Liu, "Picosecond soliton transmission using concatenated gain-distributed nonlinear amplifying fiber loop mirrors," Chin. Opt. Lett. 3, 10562 (2005)

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    Category: Nonlinear Optics

    Received: May. 9, 2003

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Jun. 12, 2006

    The Author Email: (wcao@wyu.cn)

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