Polarization-independent wavelength conversion at 2.5 Gb/s by dual-pump four-wave mixing in a strained semiconductor optical amplifier

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1633-1635

  Hunziker, Guido ^a   Paiella, Roberto ^a   Geraghty, David F ^a   Vahala, Kerry J ^a   Koren, Uzi ^b  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; GAIN MEASUREMENT; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL PUMPING;

LASER DETUNING; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 0030379591     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.544701     Document Type: Article

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