Folded-path self-pumped wavelength converter based on four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1352-1354

  Hunziker, Guido ^b   Paiella, Roberto ^a,b   Ziari, Mehrdad ^c   Mathur, Atul ^c   Vahala, Kerry J ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c SDL INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication systems; Optical frequency conversion; Optical mixers; Optical propagation in nonlinear media, optical saturation; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; LASER MODES; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; OPTICAL MIXERS; OPTICAL SATURATION;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0031258385     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.623260     Document Type: Article

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