Continuous-wave fiber optical parametric wavelength converter with +40-dB conversion efficiency and a 3.8-dB noise figure

Optics Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 692-694

  Wong, Kenneth K Y ^a   Shimizu, Katsuhiro ^a,b   Marhic, Michel E ^a   Uesaka, Katsumi ^a,c   Kalogerakis, Georgios ^a   Kazovsky, Leonid G ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

WAVELENGTH CONVERTERS (WC);

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0038367714     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.28.000692     Document Type: Article

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