Spatially resolved measurement in waveguides with arbitrary chromatic dispersion

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 1793-1795

  Myslivets, E ^a   Alic, N ^a   Radic, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion measurement; Four photon mixing (FPM); Highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF); Parametric process

Indexed keywords

COUNTERPROPAGATING; DISPERSION MEASUREMENTS; EXISTING METHOD; FOUR PHOTON MIXING; HIGH-RESOLUTION TECHNIQUES; HIGHLY NONLINEAR FIBERS; MEASUREMENT SENSITIVITY; OPTICAL POWER; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PARAMETRIC PROCESS; POWER TRANSFERS; PROBE INTERACTION; PUMP WAVES; SPATIALLY RESOLVED;

CHROMATIC DISPERSION; DISPERSIONS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHOTONS; WAVEGUIDES;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

EID: 61649114073     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.2004683     Document Type: Article

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