Nonlinear Pulse Shaping in Fibres for Pulse Generation and Optical Processing

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</svg>) profiles retrieved from second-harmonic generation (SHG) FROG (left) and optical spectra (right) of the generated pulses for an example length of prechirping fibre. (c) SHG-FROG spectrogram of the pulse in (b). Results adapted from [<a href="/journals/ijo/2012/159057/#B73">72</a>].</table>

International Journal of Optics

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Figure 3: Nonlinear Pulse Shaping in Fibres for Pulse Generation and Optical Processing 