Gain and noise characteristics of high-bit-rate silicon parametric amplifiers

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 13122-13132

  Sang, Xinzhu ^a,b   Boyraz, Ozdal ^a  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; LUMINESCENCE OF ORGANIC SOLIDS; NOISE FIGURE; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; PULSE REPETITION RATE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SILICON; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES; WAVEGUIDES;

ANOMALOUS DISPERSION; FREE CARRIER ABSORPTION; HIGH BIT RATE SIGNALS; HIGH REPETITION RATE; NOISE CHARACTERISTIC; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION;

AMPLIFIERS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 50049116348     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.013122     Document Type: Article

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