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

Figure 6

Histograms presenting, in 40 ranges of amplitude, the number of pulses determined by the technique, for four distributions: (a) Gaussian, (b) uniform, (c) chi squared with 4 degrees of freedom, and (d) the statistics derived from the work of Zakharov and Shabat (see main text for details). The actual distributions that were used to generate the bunches and compute the values are superposed for comparison. The black dot in (d) shows the combined contribution of the rightmost sections of the retrieved histogram (bracket).

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