Dynamic behavior of wavelength converters based on FWM in SOAs

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 108-125

  Politi, Christina ^a   Klonidis, Dimitrios ^b   O'Mahony, Mike J ^c  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Medical School   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Optical amplifiers; Optical frequency conversion

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EXTINCTION RATIO; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; TUNABLE CONVERTER; WAVELENGTH CONVERTERS;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 30644470916     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2005.861822     Document Type: Article

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