Phase-squeezing properties of non-degenerate PSAs using PPLN waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 26, 2011, Pages

  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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; PHASE MODULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AMPLITUDE NOISE; DYNAMIC RANGE; IN-PHASE; PHASE SENSITIVE; PPLN WAVEGUIDES; PUMP PHASE MODULATION; SIGNAL ATTENUATION;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 83455229802     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.00B131     Document Type: Article

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