Broadband and flat parametric amplifiers with a multisection dispersion-tailored nonlinear fiber arrangement

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1532-1537

  Provino, Laurent ^a   Mussot, Arnaud ^a   Lantz, Eric ^a   Sylvestre, Thibaut ^a   Maillotte, Hervé ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER OPTICS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS;

NONLINEAR FIBERS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0041809004     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.20.001532     Document Type: Article

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