Wavelength multicasting via frequency comb generation in a bandwidth-enhanced fiber optical parametric mixer

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 3515-3522

  Kuo, Bill P P ^a   Myslivets, Evgeny ^a   Alic, Nikola ^a   Radic, Stojan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonlinear pulse compression; optical multicasting; parametric processes; wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL PHASE-SHIFT KEYING; DISPERSION ENGINEERING; FIBER-OPTICAL; FREQUENCY COMBS; HIGHER ORDER; NONLINEAR PULSE COMPRESSION; OPTICAL MULTICASTING; PARAMETRIC PROCESS; REPLICATION PROCESS; SELF-SEEDED; SIGNAL INTEGRITY; SIGNAL INTENSITIES; SIGNALING FORMATS; TWO-PUMP; WAVELENGTH MULTICASTING;

BANDWIDTH; BANDWIDTH COMPRESSION; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; COPYING; MIXERS (MACHINERY);

MULTICASTING;

EID: 82555196051     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2011.2169938     Document Type: Article

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