Phase sensitive degenerate parametric amplification using directly-bonded PPLN ridge waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 6326-6332

  Umeki, Takeshi ^a   Tadanaga, Osamu ^a   Takada, Atsushi ^b,c   Asobe, Masaki ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b NTT Corporation   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PLASMA ETCHING; ZINC OXIDE;

DAMAGE RESISTANCE; DEAMPLIFICATION; DIRECT BONDING; DRY ETCHING TECHNIQUES; HIGH CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; IN-PHASE; MAXIMUM OUTPUT; MODULATED SIGNAL; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION; PERIODICALLY POLED; PHASE SENSITIVE; PHASE-SENSITIVE AMPLIFICATIONS; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES; SECONDARY WAVELENGTH; SIGNAL BEAMS; TEMPORAL OVERLAP; ZNO;

WAVEGUIDES;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; REFRACTOMETRY;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 79953218791     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.006326     Document Type: Article

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