Optical sampling using nondegenerate four-wave mixing in a semiconductor laser amplifier

Electronics Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 18, 1994, Pages 1489-1491

  Jinno, M ^a   Schlager, J B ^a   Franzen, D L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

High speed optical techniques; mixing; Multiwave; Semiconductor optical amplifiers

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER PULSES; SAMPLING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

HIGH SPEED OPTICAL TECHNIQUES; MULTIWAVE MIXING; NONDEGENERATE FOUR WAVE MIXING; OPTICAL SAMPLING;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0028514799     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19941043     Document Type: Article

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