Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 19, Issue 8, 081901(2021)

Real-time and ultrafast optical pulse quantization based on slicing the supercontinuum

Ya Guo1,4, Qiang Cai1, Zhiwei Jia1, Bingjie Xu5, Zhensen Gao2, Qianwu Zhang3, Ruonan Zhang4, Adonis Bogris6, K. Alan Shore7, Yuncai Wang2, and Pu Li1,2,3、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Key Laboratory of Advanced Transducers and Intelligent Control System, Ministry of Education, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China
  • 2School of Information Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
  • 3Key Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
  • 4School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
  • 5Science and Technology on Communication Security Laboratory, Institute of Southwestern Communication, Chengdu 610041, China
  • 6Department of Informatics and Computer Engineering, University of West Attica, Athens 12243, Greece
  • 7School of Electronic Engineering, Bangor University, Wales LL57 1UT, United Kingdom
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    Ya Guo, Qiang Cai, Zhiwei Jia, Bingjie Xu, Zhensen Gao, Qianwu Zhang, Ruonan Zhang, Adonis Bogris, K. Alan Shore, Yuncai Wang, Pu Li, "Real-time and ultrafast optical pulse quantization based on slicing the supercontinuum," Chin. Opt. Lett. 19, 081901 (2021)

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    Paper Information

    Category: Nonlinear Optics

    Received: Sep. 7, 2020

    Accepted: Dec. 30, 2020

    Published Online: Apr. 27, 2021

    The Author Email: Pu Li (lipu8603@126.com)

    DOI:10.3788/COL202119.081901

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