Wide-band tuning of the gain spectra of one-pump fiber optical parametric amplifiers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1133-1141

  Marhic, Michel E ^a   Wong, Kenneth Kin Yip ^a,b   Kazovsky, Leonid G ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Parametric amplifiers; Tunable amplifiers; Tunable filters

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DISPERSIONS; FIBERS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PUMPS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

MAXIMUM GAIN; PROPAGATION CONSTANTS; TUNABLE ABPLIFIERS; TUNABLE FILTERS;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 10944260123     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2004.835298     Document Type: Article

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