Broadband single-pumped fiber-optic parametric amplifiers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 650-652

  Torounidis, Thomas ^a   Andrekson, Peter ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Four wave mixing (FWM); Highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF); Optical parametric amplifier; Tunable laser (TL)

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LASER TUNING; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PHASE MODULATION;

HIGHLY NONLINEAR FIBER (HNLF);

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 34147163301     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.894959     Document Type: Article

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