Four-wave mixing in fibers with random birefringence

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2033-2055

  McKinstrie, C J ^a   Kogelnik, H ^a   Jopson, R M ^a   Radic, S ^b   Kanaev, A V ^c  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; POLARIZATION; SELF PHASE MODULATION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

FOUR-WAVE MIXING (FWM); MANAKOV EQUATION; PHOTON-WEIGHTED POLARIZATION; SIGNAL POLARIZATION;

BIREFRINGENCE;

EID: 2942752397     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.002033     Document Type: Article

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