Large phase sensitive gain in periodically poled lithium-niobate with high pump power

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 426-428

  Puttnam, Benjamin J ^a   Mazroa, Dániel ^b   Shinada, Satoshi ^a   Wada, Naoya ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

lithium niobate; phase sensitive amplification

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC RANGE; GREEN LIGHT EMISSION; NIOBATES; PERIODICALLY POLED; PHASE-SENSITIVE; PHASE-SENSITIVE AMPLIFICATIONS; PUMP POWER; TELECOMMUNICATION WAVELENGTHS; THEORETICAL MODELS; THERMAL INSTABILITIES;

AMPLIFICATION; LITHIUM; PUMPS;

NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 79952913677     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2011.2106489     Document Type: Article

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