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

Ya Guo; Qiang Cai; Zhiwei Jia; Bingjie Xu; Zhensen Gao; Qianwu Zhang; Ruonan Zhang; Adonis Bogris; K. Alan Shore; Yuncai Wang; Pu Li

doi:10.3788/COL202119.081901

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