Regenerative Properties of a Pump-Modulated Four-Wave Mixing Scheme in Dispersion-Shifted Fibers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1892-1902

  Bogris, A ^a   Syvridis, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Four wave mixing (FWM); Optical fibers; Wavelength conversion

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; BANDWIDTH; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL PUMPING;

WAVELENGTH CONVERSION;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 0141750421     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2003.814390     Document Type: Article

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