Wide-band polarization-free wavelength conversion based on four-wave-mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 152-156

  Hong, Yanhua ^a   Spencer, Paul S ^a   Shore, K Alan ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Optical communication; Optical frequency conversion; Optical mixing; Optical polarization; Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs); Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

FOUR WAVE MIXING; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PUMPING (LASER); WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL MIXING; POLARIZATION BEAM SPLITTER; PUMP BEAMS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 1242308841     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2003.821544     Document Type: Article

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