Design and analysis of a broadband dispersion compensating photonic crystal fiber Raman amplifier operating in S-band

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 3528-3540

  Varshney, Shailendra K ^a   Fujisawa, Takeshi ^a   Saitoh, Kunimasa ^a   Koshiba, Masanori ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; DISPERSION (WAVES); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PHOTONS; RAMAN SCATTERING;

DISPERSION SLOPE; FINITE ELEMENT MODAL SOLVER; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS (PCF); RAYLEIGH BACKSCATTERING;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33645817524     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.003528     Document Type: Article

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