A novel design for dispersion compensating photonic crystal fiber Raman amplifier

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2062-2064

  Varshney, Shailendra K ^a   Saitoh, Kunimasa ^a   Koshiba, Masanori ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dispersion compensation; Finite element method; Photonic crystal fiber (PCF); Raman amplification

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; DISPERSION (WAVES); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GAIN MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; RAMAN SCATTERING; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

DISPERSION COEFFICIENT; DISPERSION COMPENSATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER (PCF); RAMAN AMPLIFICATION; SINGLE-MODE FIBER (SMF);

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 26844458386     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.854395     Document Type: Article

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