Increased Stokes pulse energy variation from amplified classical noise in a fiber Raman generator

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2948-2960

  Betlej, Arkadiusz ^a   Schmitt, Peter ^a   Sidereas, Panagiotis ^a   Tracy, Ryan ^a   Goedde, Christopher G ^a   Thompson, John R ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AMPLIFICATION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

ELECTRICAL POWER FLUCTUATIONS; FIBER RAMAN GENERATORS; QUANTUM FLUCTUATIONS; STOKES PULSE ENERGY FLUCTUATIONS;

RAMAN SCATTERING;

EID: 21244433578     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.002948     Document Type: Article

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