Separation of coherent and incoherent nonlinearities in a heterodyne pump-probe experiment

Optics Express

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 107-112

  Borri, P ^a,b   Romstad, F ^a   Langbein, W ^b   Kelly, A E ^c   Mork J ^a   Hvam, J M ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Corning Research Centre ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOUR WAVE MIXING; HETERODYNING; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COHERENT ARTIFACTS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS (SOAS); SPATIAL GRATING;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 0011866736     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.7.000107     Document Type: Article

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