Four-wave mixing in a single-walled carbon-nanotube-deposited D-shaped fiber and its application in tunable wavelength conversion

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 15608-15613

  Chow, K K ^a   Yamashita, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; FOUR WAVE MIXING; NANOTUBES; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; YARN;

10 GB/ S; BIT-ERROR-RATE MEASUREMENTS; D-SHAPED FIBER; ITS APPLICATIONS; NONRETURN TO ZERO SIGNAL; POWER PENALTY; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWCNTS); TUNABLE WAVELENGTH CONVERSION;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 69949093521     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.015608     Document Type: Article

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