Raman gain saturation at high pump and Stokes powers

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 6079-6084

  Babin, S A ^a   Churkin, D V ^a   Kablukov, S I ^a   Podivilov, E V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION AND ELECTROMETRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAIN CONTROL; RAMAN SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SILICATES;

RAMAN GAIN COEFFICIENT; RAMAN GAIN SATURATION; SIGNAL WAVE POWER; STOKES POWERS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 24044539545     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.006079     Document Type: Article

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