Theoretical and experimental investigation of Brillouin scattering for the generation of millimeter waves

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1012-1019

  Schneider, Thomas ^a   Junker, Markus ^a   Lauterbach, Kai Uwe ^a  

^a LEIPZIG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MILLIMETER WAVES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHASE MODULATION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT;

BRILLOUIN AMPLIFICATION; MILLILETER-WAVE SIGNAL; PHASE NOISE MEASUREMENTS; THIRD-ORDER NONLINEAR EFFECTS;

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

EID: 33745896183     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.23.001012     Document Type: Article

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