Characterizing the Statistics of a Bunch of Optical Pulses Using a Nonlinear Optical Loop Mirror

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(a, d) Series of rectangles with random amplitudes obeying (a) a Gaussian distribution with mean 1 and standard deviation 0.4 and (d) a uniform distribution on the interval ; (b, e) when arranged in decreasing order of amplitude, each series tends to a specific intensity profile (materialized by the dashed curves); (c, f) illustration of the basic principle of the method: for the same energy (shaded area) of the input bunch, the bunch energy at the NOLM output is very different for each distribution (in this example, it is higher in the uniform case).

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