Polarisation-insensitive QPM wavelength converter with out-of-band pump

Electronics Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 189-191

  Wang, Y ^a   Chen, B ^a   Xu, C Q ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER NETWORKS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; OPTICAL PUMPING; POLARIZATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVEGUIDES;

DIFFERENCE FREQUENCY GENERATION (DFG); PUMP WAVES; QUASI-PHASE-MATCHED (QPM) WAVEGUIDES; TRANSVERSE-MAGNETIC (TM) MODE OPERATION; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION;

WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 1242298620     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20040132     Document Type: Article

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