All-optical wavelength conversion of 500-fs pulse trains by using a nonlinear-optical loop mirror composed of a highly nonlinear DSF

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 502-504

  Sakamoto, Takahide ^a   Futami, Fumio ^a   Kikuchi, Kazuro ^a   Takeda, Shinichi ^b   Sugaya, Yasushi ^b   Watanabe, Shigeki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

All optical devices; Highly nonlinear dispersion shifted fiber; Nonlinear optical loop mirror; Wavelength conversion

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; MIRRORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE MODULATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

HIGHLY NONLINEAR DISPERSION SHIFTED FIBER; OPTICAL WAVELENGTH CONVERSION; PULSE TRAINS; SIGNAL PULSES;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 0035333664     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.920766     Document Type: Article

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