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

Figure 5

Histograms presenting, in 40 ranges of amplitude, the number of “slices” (subsets of Gaussian-shaped pulses) determined by the technique for three distributions: (a) Gaussian, (b) uniform, and (c) chi squared with 4 degrees of freedom. The actual distributions that were used to generate the bunches and compute the values are superposed for comparison. The phase bias and .

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