All-optical format conversions using periodically poled lithium niobate waveguides

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 195-205

  Wang, Jian ^a   Sun, Junqiang ^a   Zhang, Xinliang ^a   Huang, Dexiu ^a   Fejer, Martin M ^b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

All optical format conversion; Cascaded second harmonic generation and difference frequency generation (cSHG DFG); Cascaded sum And difference frequency generation (cSFG DFG); Periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN); Quasi phase matching (QPM)

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL FORMAT CONVERSION; CASCADED SECOND-HARMONIC GENERATION AND DIFFERENCE-FREQUENCY GENERATION (CSHG/DFG); CASCADED SUM- AND DIFFERENCE-FREQUENCY GENERATION (CSFG/DFG); PERIODICALLY POLED LITHIUM NIOBATE; QUASI-PHASE-MATCHING;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC GENERATION; LITHIUM; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHASE MATCHING; PHASE SHIFT; PHASE SHIFT KEYING; WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 70749134285     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2008.2010798     Document Type: Article

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