Four-wave mixing in a rapidly-spun fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 8516-8534

  McKinstrie, C J ^a   Kogelnik, H ^a   Schenato, L ^a,b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; POLARIZATION; PUMPING (LASER); SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVES;

FOUR WAVE MIXING (FWM); PUMP WAVES; SIGNAL AMPLIFICATION; SPUN FIBERS;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 33748946584     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.008516     Document Type: Article

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