Waveband converters based on four-wave mixing in SOAs

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1203-1217

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

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Four wave mixing optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Waveband converters

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; LASER TUNING; LIGHT EXTINCTION; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL PUMPING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FOUR WAVE MIXING OPTICAL WAVELENGTH CONVERSION; OPTICAL SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; WAVEBAND CONVERTERS;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 33645011198     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.863289     Document Type: Article

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