Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 19, Issue 8, 081901(2021)
Real-time and ultrafast optical pulse quantization based on slicing the supercontinuum
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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)
Category: Nonlinear Optics
Received: Sep. 7, 2020
Accepted: Dec. 30, 2020
Published Online: Apr. 27, 2021
The Author Email: Pu Li (lipu8603@126.com)