Contra-directional two-beam coupling by use of a single input beam in an iron-doped lithium niobate multimode fiber

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 32, 2002, Pages 6890-6893

  Evans, D R ^a,b   Saleh, M A ^a,b   Bunning, T J ^a   Lu, L ^c   Meltzer, R S ^c   Yen, W M ^c   Guha, S ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Technical Management Concepts Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); IRON; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT REFLECTION; LITHIUM NIOBATE; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

TWO BEAM COUPLING (TBC);

MULTIMODE FIBERS;

EID: 0037058451     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.006890     Document Type: Article

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