OTDM to WDM format conversion based on quadratic cascading in a periodically poled lithium niobáte waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 10282-10288

  Lee, Kwang Jo ^a   Liu, Sheng ^a   Parmigiani, Francesca ^a   Ibsen, Morten ^a   Petropoulos, Periklis ^a   Gallo, Katia ^b   Richardson, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; WAVEGUIDES; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

10-GBIT/S; 40-GBIT/S; CASCADED SECOND HARMONICS; CHIRPED PULSE; DATA PULSE; DIFFERENCE-FREQUENCY GENERATION; ERROR FREE OPERATIONS; FORMAT CONVERSION; NONLINEAR WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL TIME-DIVISION MULTIPLEXED; PERIODICALLY POLED; PERIODICALLY POLED LITHIUM NIOBATE WAVEGUIDES; POWER PENALTY; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXED;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

LITHIUM NIOBATE; NIOBIUM; OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; NIOBIUM; OPTICAL DEVICES; OXIDES; REFRACTOMETRY; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 77952693506     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.010282     Document Type: Article

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