Self-switching of optical pulses in dispersion-imbalanced nonlinear loop mirrors.
We report a novel nonlinear filter that transmits and shortens incident pulses while rejecting cw background as well as resonant continuum. A relative extinction of 22dB is reported for the cw background.
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