Continuous-Wave Fiber Optical Parametric Amplifier with 60-dB Gain Using a Novel Two-Segment Design

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1707-1709

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

^a Stanford University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Four wave mixing; Optical amplifiers; Optical fibers; Optical transmission; Parametric amplification

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BANDPASS FILTERS; BANDWIDTH; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; FIBER OPTICS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; GAIN MEASUREMENT; LASER TUNING; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OSCILLATIONS; PHASE MODULATION;

LOW-LOSS ISOLATORS; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION; PHASE MODULATORS;

PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0348233395     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.819706     Document Type: Article

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