Fiber four-wave mixing demultiplexing with inherent parametric amplification

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2051-2058

  Hedekvist, Per Olof ^a   Karlsson, Magnus ^a   Andrekson, Peter A ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Demultiplexing; Optical fiber communication; Optical mixing; Optical parametric amplifiers; Optical switches

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BIT ERROR RATE; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT EXTINCTION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PUMPING (LASER); TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ALL OPTICAL TIME DIVISION DEMULTIPLEXERS; FIBER FOUR WAVE MIXING DEMULTIPLEXING; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION; SINGLE MODE DISPERSION SHIFTED FIBERS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0031270934     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.641522     Document Type: Article

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