Constant efficiency broadband wavelength converter based on self-generated orthogonal pumps

Electronics Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 616-617

  Nogueira, R N ^a   Teixeira, A L J ^a   Da Rocha, J R F ^a   Pinto, J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BIREFRINGENCE; DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LASERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; POLARIZATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

BROADBAND ORTHOGONAL PUMPS (BOP); SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS (SOA); WAVELENGTH CONVERTERS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 2942525378     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20040399     Document Type: Article

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