Wavelength-conversion of pseudorandom pulses at 10 Gb/s by using soliton self-frequency shift in a photonic crystal fiber

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1119-1121

  Abedin, Kazi S ^a   Miyazaki, Tetsuya ^a   Kubota, Fumito ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optical communication; Optical frequency conversion; Optical propagation in nonlinear media; Optical soliton self frequency shift (SSFS); Optical solitons; Photonic crystal fibers (PCFs); Stimulated Raman scattering

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICAL FILTERS; PHOTONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RANDOM PROCESSES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SOLITONS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER; PICOSECOND PULSES; PSEUDORANDOM PULSES; SOLITON SELF-FREQUENCY SHIFT; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 1942436753     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.824666     Document Type: Article

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