Efficiency improvement of optical fiber wavelength converter without spectral spread using synchronous phase/frequency modulations

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1039-1045

  Torii, Kenichi ^a,b,c   Yamashita, Shinji ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c Fujitsue Laboratories Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Four wave mixing (FWM); Spread spectrum scheme; Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS); Synchronous modulation; Wavelength conversion

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; FREQUENCY MODULATION; PHASE MODULATION; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

WAVELENGTH CONVERSIONS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0038155179     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2003.810081     Document Type: Article

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