Continuum spectrum generation utilizing adiabatic compression in Raman amplifier for multi-wavelength pulse source

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 1856-1861

  Matsuura, Motoharu ^a   Kishi, Naoto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DISPERSION (WAVES); FIBER OPTICS; GAIN MEASUREMENT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; RAMAN SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SOLITONS;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSIONS (ASE); DISPERSION SHIFTED FIBERS (DSF); ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS (EDFA); FIBER OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 2942707769     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.001856     Document Type: Article

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