Efficient wide-band and tunable midspan spectral inverter using cascaded nonlinearities in LiNbO3 waveguides

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 82-84

  Chou, M H ^a   Brener, I ^b   Lenz, G ^b   Scotti, R ^b   Chaban, E E ^b   Shmulovich, J ^b   Philen, D ^b   Kosinski, S ^b   Parameswaran, K R ^a   Fejer, M M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LITHIUM NIOBATE; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

MIDSPAN SPECTRAL INVERTERS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0033874375     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.817501     Document Type: Article

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