Spectrally flat and broadband double-pumped fiber optical parametric amplifiers

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 5288-5309

  Chavez Boggio, J M ^a   Marconi, J D ^b   Bickham, S R ^b   Fragnito, H L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b Corning Incorporated Science and Technology Division ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PHASE SHIFT; RANDOM PROCESSES;

FIBER OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS (FOPA); HIGHLY NONLINEAR FIBERS (HNLF); SHIFTED FIBERS; ZERO DISPERSION WAVELENGTH;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 34247851051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.005288     Document Type: Article

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