Noise in dual-pumped fiber-optical parametric amplifiers: Theory and experiments

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2837-2846

  Kylemark, Per ^a   Ren, Jian ^b   Karlsson, Magnus ^a   Radic, Stojan ^b   McKinstrie, Colin J ^c   Andrekson, Peter A ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Four wave mixing (FWM); Modulation interaction (MI); Noise figure (NF); Parametric amplification; Phase conjugation (PC)

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; NOISE FIGURE; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHONONS;

COPOLARIZED PUMPS; DUAL-PUMPED PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIER; FOUR-SIDEBAND INTERACTION; RAMAN-INDUCED LOSSES;

PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34548620191     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.902098     Document Type: Article

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