Phase sensitive amplification based on quadratic cascading in a periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 20393-20400

  Lee, Kwang Jo ^a   Parmigiani, Francesca ^a   Liu, Sheng ^a   Kakande, Joseph ^a   Petropoulos, Periklis ^a   Gallo, Katia ^b   Richardson, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

BROAD GAIN BANDWIDTH; DIFFERENCE-FREQUENCY GENERATION; FIXED GAINS; PERIODICALLY POLED; PERIODICALLY POLED LITHIUM NIOBATE WAVEGUIDES; PHASE-SENSITIVE AMPLIFICATIONS; PROOF-OF-PRINCIPLE EXPERIMENTS; WAVEGUIDE DEVICE;

WAVEGUIDES;

LITHIUM NIOBATE; NIOBIUM; OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; NIOBIUM; OPTICAL DEVICES; OXIDES; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70749084676     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.020393     Document Type: Article

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