10-GHz return-to-zero pulse source tunable in wavelength with a single- or multiwavelength output based on four-wave mixing in a newly developed highly nonlinear fiber

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 70-72

  Clausen, A T ^a   Oxenlowe L ^a   Peucheret, C ^a   Poulsen, H N ^a   Jeppesen, P ^a   Knudsen, S N ^b   Gruner Nielsen L ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMULTIPLEXING; FOUR WAVE MIXING; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL MIXING; OPTICAL PULSE GENERATION; OPTICAL TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0035088393     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.903224     Document Type: Article

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