Noise characteristics and optimum fiber length of spectral inversion using four-wave mixing in a dispersion-shifted fiber

Optical Fiber Technology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 28-43

  Zhang, Xiupu ^a   Jørgensen, Bo F ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

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EID: 0030641956     PISSN: 10685200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ofte.1997.0195     Document Type: Article

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