Ultra-low-noise inline fiber-optic phase-sensitive amplifier for analog optical signals

OFC/NFOEC 2008 - 2008 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Lim, Oo Kaw ^a   Grigoryan, Vladimir ^a   Shin, Matthew ^b   Kumar, Prem ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); FIBER OPTICS; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PARAMETRIC DEVICES;

AMPLIFICATION SCHEMES; FIBER OPTIC; LOW-NOISE; OPTICAL SIGNALLING; OPTICAL-; PHASE-SENSITIVE; PHASE-SENSITIVE AMPLIFIERS;

FIBERS;

EID: 49349104341     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OFC.2008.4528359     Document Type: Conference Paper

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