An efficient wavelength converter exploiting a grating-based saw-tooth pulse shaper

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 1461-1463

  Parmigiani, F ^a   Ibsen, M ^a   Ng, T T ^a   Provost, L ^a   Petropoulos, P ^a   Richardson, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fiber Bragg grating; Highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF); Optical Kerr effect; Optical pulse shaping; Self phase modulation (SPM)

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN PULSE; HIGHLY NONLINEAR FIBER (HNLF); HIGHLY NONLINEAR FIBERS; OPTICAL PULSE; OPTICAL PULSE SHAPING; PICOSECONDS; PULSE SHAPER; PULSE SHAPES; PULSEWIDTHS; SAW-TOOTH; SELF-PHASE MODULATION (SPM); SUPER-STRUCTURED FIBER BRAGG GRATING; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION; WAVELENGTH CONVERTER;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER OPTIC COMPONENTS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBERS; KERR MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECT; LASER PULSES; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MODULATION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS; SELF PHASE MODULATION;

OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

EID: 65949089535     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.927887     Document Type: Article

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