Low penalty uniformly tunable wavelength conversion without spectral inversion over 30 nm using SBS-suppressed low-dispersion-slope highly nonlinear fibers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 546-548

  Petit, Stéphane ^a   Kurosu, Takayuki ^a   Takahashi, Masanori ^b   Yagi, Takeshi ^b   Namiki, Shu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Four wave mixing (FWM); highly nonlinear fibers (HNLFs); nonlinear optics; stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS); wavelength conversion

Indexed keywords

HIGHLY NONLINEAR FIBERS; HIGHLY NONLINEAR FIBERS (HNLFS); INPUT AND OUTPUTS; PARAMETRIC WAVELENGTHS; POWER PENALTY; SPECTRAL INVERSION; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN; TUNABLE WAVELENGTH CONVERSION; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION;

DISPERSION (WAVES); FIBERS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; ULTRASONICS;

STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

EID: 79953820927     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2011.2112344     Document Type: Article

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