Parametric instabilities driven by orthogonal pump waves in birefringent fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 2619-2633

  McKinstrie, C J ^a,b   Radic, S ^a,c   Xie, C ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b University of Rochester   (United States)

^c Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; POLYNOMIALS; PUMPING (LASER);

BIREFINGENT FIBERS; FIBER AMPLIFIERS AND OSCILLATORS; FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PARAMETRIC INSTABILITIES; SPATIAL GROWTH RATE;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 2942735153     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.002619     Document Type: Article

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