High-repetition-rate pulsed-pump fiber OPA for amplification of communication signals

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 3021-3027

  Kalogerakis, Georgios ^a   Shimizu, Katsuhiro ^a,b   Marhic, Michel E ^a   Wong, Kenneth Kin Yip ^c   Uesaka, Katsumi ^a,d   Kazovsky, Leonid G ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optical amplifier; Optical parametric amplifier (OPA); Pulsed pump; Pulsed reshape

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PULSE AMPLIFIERS;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIER; PULSED PUMP; PULSED RESHAPE;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 33747624411     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2006.878012     Document Type: Article

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