Amplitude squeezing in a Mach-Zehnder fiber interferometer: Numerical analysis of experiments with microstructure fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 128-138

  Fiorentino, Marco ^a   Sharping, Jay E ^a   Kumar, Prem ^a   Porzio, Alberto ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INFM   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; QUANTUM OPTICS; SOLITONS;

AMPLITUDE SQUEEZING; MACH-ZEHNDER FIBER INTERFEROMETERS; MICROSTRUCTURE FIBERS; SOLITON SELF-FREQUENCY SHIFT;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0009455890     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.10.000128     Document Type: Article

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