All-optical, wavelength and bandwidth preserving, pulse delay based on parametric wavelength conversion and dispersion

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 7872-7877

  Sharping, Jay E ^a   Okawachi, Yoshitomo ^a   Van Howe, James ^a   Xu, Chris ^a   Wang, Yan ^b   Willner, Alan E ^b   Gaeta, Alexander L ^a  

^a Department of Materials Science and Engineering   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering Systems University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHASE SHIFT KEYING;

GROUP-VELOCITY DISPERSION; SIGNAL PULSE DURATIONS; WAVELENGTH RECONVERSION;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 30144445392     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.007872     Document Type: Article

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