High-conversion-efficiency widely-tunable all-fiber optical parametric oscillator

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2947-2952

  Wong, G K L ^a   Murdoch, S G ^a   Leonhardt, R ^a   Harvey, J D ^a   Marie, V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b INSA DE RENNES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT MODULATION; TUNING; WAVELENGTH;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; DISPERSION WAVELENGTH; MODULATION INSTABILITY; PUMPED RING CAVITY;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

EID: 33947386637     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.002947     Document Type: Article

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