Noise characteristics of dual-pump fiber-optic parametric amplifiers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2788-2795

  Bogris, Adonis ^a   Syvridis, Dimitris ^a   Kylemark, Per ^b   Andrekson, Peter A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Amplified spontaneous emission (ASE); Four wave mixing (FWM); Noise; Noise figure (NF); Optical parametric amplifier; Quantum noise (QN)

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER OPTICS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PUMPING (LASER); SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION (ASE); NOISE FIGURE (NF); OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIER; QUANTUM NOISE (QN);

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 26844459146     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.853140     Document Type: Article

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