Highly Efficient Arbitrary Wavelength Conversion within Entire C-Band Based on Nondegenerate Fiber Four-Wave Mixing

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 551-553

  Tanemura, Takuo ^a   Goh, Chee S ^a   Kikuchi, Kazuro ^a   Set, Sze Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Alnair Labs Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Four wave mixing (FWM); Optical wavelength conversion (WC); Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHASE MODULATION; RADIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

FOUR-WAVE MIXING (FWM); OPTICAL WAVELENGTH CONVERSION (WC); STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING (SBS); WAVELENGTH CONVERSION;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 1442336698     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.823129     Document Type: Article

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