Noise properties of degenerate dual pump phase sensitive amplifiers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1209-1217

  Bogris, Adonis ^a   Syvridis, Dimitris ^a   Efstathiou, Costas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Parametric amplifiers; Phase locked loops; Phase matching; Phase noise

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIER NOISE; ANALYTICAL TOOL; DEGENERATE FOUR WAVE MIXING; DIRECT CALCULATION; NOISE PROPERTIES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PHASE SENSITIVE AMPLIFIERS; PHASE-LOCKING; PHASE-NOISE PROPERTIES; PUMP SOURCES; SIGNAL POWER;

AMPLIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOUR WAVE MIXING; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; NOISE FIGURE; OPTICAL FIBERS; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; PHASE MATCHING; PHASE NOISE; PUMPS;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 77950815793     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2010.2044016     Document Type: Article

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