Wavelength Conversion and Pulse Reshaping Through Cascaded Interactions in an MZI Configuration

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1486-1491

  Razzari, Luca ^a   Liberale, Carlo ^a   Cristiani, Ilaria ^a   Tediosi, Riccardo ^a   Degiorgio, Vittorio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Guided wave optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical frequency conversion; Optical propagation in nonlinear media

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

NONLINEAR DEPHASING; PULSE RESHAPING;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0242611984     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2003.818310     Document Type: Article

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