Dual-pump Raman amplification with increased flatness using modulation instability

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1079-1084

  Ellingham, T J ^a   Ania Castanon J D ^a   Turitsyn, S K ^a   Pustovskikh, A ^b   Kobtsev, S ^b   Fedoruk, M P ^c  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); BANDWIDTH; GAIN CONTROL; LIGHT MODULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL PUMPING; RAMAN SCATTERING; SELF PHASE MODULATION;

EXTERNAL MODULATORS; MODULATION INSTABILITY; NONLINEAR BROADENING; RAMAN AMPLIFICATION;

AMPLIFICATION;

EID: 14744305340     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.001079     Document Type: Article

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