Novel design of inherently gain-flattened discrete highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber Raman amplifier and dispersion compensation using a single pump in C-band

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 9516-9526

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

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CRYSTALS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

COMPOSITE AMPLIFIERS; NONLINEAR PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; RAMAN GAIN;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 27744451927     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.009516     Document Type: Article

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