Noise-figure limit of fiber-optical parametric amplifiers and wavelength converters: Experimental investigation

Optics Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 2372-2374

  Tang, Renyong ^a   Voss, Paul L ^a   Lasri, Jacob ^a   Devgan, Preetpaul ^a   Kumar, Prem ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION-SHIFTED FIBERS (DSF); FIBER-OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS (FOPA); NOISE FIGURE (NF); WAVELENGTH CONVERTERS;

AMPLIFICATION; FIBER OPTICS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FUNCTIONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 7544235828     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.29.002372     Document Type: Article

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