Noise figure of silicon Raman amplifiers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 847-852

  Dimitropoulos, Dimitrios ^a   Solli, Daniel R ^a   Claps, Ricardo ^a,b   Boyraz, Ozdal ^a,c   Jalali, Bahram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Neptec Optical Solutions   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplifier noise; Optical noise; Silicon; Silicon on insulator technology

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; QUANTUM THEORY; SILICON; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CONTINUOUS WAVE MODE; NEAR-INFRARED COMMUNICATION WAVELENGTHS; SILICON RAMAN AMPLIFIERS; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTION;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 42649121007     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.915211     Document Type: Article

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