Four-wave mixing based 10-Gb/s tunable wavelength conversion using a holey fiber with a high SBS threshold

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 440-442

  Lee, Ju Han ^a   Belardi, Walter ^a   Furusawa, Kentaro ^a   Petropoulos, Periklis ^a   Yusoff, Zulfadzli ^a   Monro, Tanya M ^a   Richardson, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gratings; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber devices; Optical signal processing

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHASE MODULATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CROSS PHASE MODULATION (XPM);

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 0037340676     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2002.807928     Document Type: Article

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