Phase-matching and mitigation of four-wave mixing in fibers with positive gain

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 577-582

  Fève, Jean Philippe ^a  

^a Teem Photonics   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; PHASE MEASUREMENT;

IDLER WAVES; ISOTROPIC SINGLE-MODE FIBERS; PASSIVE FIBERS;

SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

EID: 33846479837     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.000577     Document Type: Article

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