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\large{{NONLINEAR PULSE PROPAGATION THROUGH \\
AN OPTICAL FIBER: THEORY AND EXPERIMENT}}\\
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\large{Bhaskar Khubchandani}%Your full name as it appears in University records.
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Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the \\
University of Maryland, College Park in partial fulfillment \\
of the requirements for the degree of \\
Doctor of Philosophy \\
2004
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\noindent Advisory Committee: \\
\hbox{\ }\hspace{.5in}Professor Rajarshi Roy, Chair/Advisor \\
\hbox{\ }\hspace{.5in}Dr.\ Parvez N. Guzdar, Co-Advisor \\
\hbox{\ }\hspace{.5in}Professor Thomas M.\ Antonsen, Jr.\ \\
\hbox{\ }\hspace{.5in}Professor Robert W.\ Gammon \\
\hbox{\ }\hspace{.5in}Professor Edward Ott
