Fundamental noise limit in dual-pump fiber-optic parametric amplifiers and wavelength converters

2005 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 980-982

  Lin, Q ^a   Yaman, F ^a   Radic, S ^b   Agrawal, Govind P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; GAIN MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL PUMPING; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; RAMAN SCATTERING;

GAIN SPECTRUM; WAVELENGTH CONVERTERS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 30944441669     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/cleo.2005.201996     Document Type: Conference Paper

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