Dual-pump four-wave mixing in a double-mode distributed feedback laser

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 53-62

  Minch, J ^a,b   Chuang, S L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0034387985     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.17.000053     Document Type: Article

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