All-optical tunable wavelength conversion with extinction ratio enhancement using periodically poled lithium niobate waveguides

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 3137-3148

  Wang, Jian ^a   Sun, Junqiang ^a   Zhang, Xinliang ^a   Huang, Dexiu ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cascaded second harmonic generation and difference frequency generation (cSHG DFG); Extinction ratio; Nonlinear optics; Periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN); Wavelength conversion

Indexed keywords

CASCADED SECOND-HARMONIC GENERATION AND DIFFERENCE-FREQUENCY GENERATION (CSHG/DFG); EXTINCTION RATIO; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PERIODICALLY POLED LITHIUM NIOBATE (PPLN); WAVELENGTH CONVERSION;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC GENERATION; LIGHT EXTINCTION; LITHIUM; MULTICASTING; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WAVEGUIDES; WAVELENGTH;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 60149091829     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2008.925048     Document Type: Article

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