Wavelength-tunable dispersion-imbalanced loop mirror based on dispersion-flattened high-nonlinearity photonic crystal fiber and its application in suppression of the incoherent interferometric crosstalk

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1911-1913

  Wang, Zhaoxin ^a   Lin, Chinlon ^a   Chow, Kin Kee ^a   Ku, Yuen Ching ^a   Bjarklev, Anders ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dispersion imbalanced loop mirror (DILM); Nonlinear optical signal processing; Photonic crystal fiber (PCF)

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; CRYSTALS; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER MODES; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL FIBERS;

DISPERSION IMBALANCED LOOP MIRROR (DILM); NONLINEAR OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER (PCF);

MIRRORS;

EID: 27144546387     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.851936     Document Type: Article

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