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Frontiers in Optics

Propagation of Incoherent and Chirped Optical Pulses in Dispersive Media

Aminul I. Talukder, Takatoshi Haruta, Makoto Tomita

Published Jan 1, 2005• 0 citations
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Abstract

We verify that the propagation velocity in the context of net group and reshaping delays is significant for arbitrarily shaped optical pulses in dispersive media. The so-called super-/sub-luminal velocity is modified by the reshaping delay.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2005.jwa71

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