Error free all optical wavelength conversion in highly nonlinear As-Se chalcogenide glass fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 10371-10376

  Ta'eed, Vahid G ^a   Fu, Libin ^a   Pelusi, Mark ^a   Rochette, Martin ^a   Littler, Ian C M ^a   Moss, David J ^a   Eggleton, Benjamin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; SELENIUM; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

NONLINEAR COEFFICIENT; NONLINEAR GLASSES; NONLINEAR SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

GLASS FIBERS;

EID: 33750739216     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.010371     Document Type: Article

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