In-line frequency-nondegenerate phase-sensitive fiber-optical parametric amplifier

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1845-1847

  Tang, Renyong ^a   Devgan, Preetpaul ^a   Voss, Paul L ^a   Grigoryan, Vladimir S ^a   Kumar, Prem ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical parametric amplifiers

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; FIBER OPTICS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; GAIN MEASUREMENT; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

FREQUENCY-NONDEGENERATE FOUR-WAVE MIXING (FNDFWM); OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PHASE-SENSITIVE AMPLIFIERS (PSAS);

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 25444488209     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.853226     Document Type: Article

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