Gain enhancement in cascaded fiber parametric amplifier with quasi-phase matching: Theory and experiment

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 247-251

  Kim, Jaeyoun ^a   Boyraz, özdal ^a,b   Lim, Jin H ^a   Islam, Mohammed N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonlinear optics; Nonlinear wave propagation; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Optical frequency conversion; Optical parametric amplifiers; Optical propagation in nonlinear media

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSION (WAVES); FOUR WAVE MIXING; GAIN CONTROL; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

QUASI-PHASE MATCHING (QPM);

PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0035245225     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.917896     Document Type: Article

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