Wide bandwidth flat gain Raman amplifier by using polarization-independent interferometric filter

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 2991-2996

  Tio, Andrew A B ^a   Shum, P ^a   Gong, Y D ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BIREFRINGENCE; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PUMPING (LASER); RAMAN SCATTERING;

FIBER LOOP MIRROR; INTERFEROMETRIC FILTERS; RAMAN AMPLIFIERS; RAMAN GAIN;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 2942701898     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.002991     Document Type: Article

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