Phase sensitive amplification with noise figure below the 3 dB quantum limit using CW pumped PPLN waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 13164-13172

  Asobe, Masaki ^a   Umeki, Takeshi ^a   Tadanaga, Osamu ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; NOISE FIGURE;

40-GBIT/S; AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSIONS; ELECTRICAL DOMAINS; LOW NOISE; NOISE-FLOOR MEASUREMENTS; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION; PERIODICALLY POLED LINBO3; PHASE-SENSITIVE AMPLIFICATIONS; PHASE-SENSITIVE AMPLIFIERS; PPLN WAVEGUIDES; QUANTUM LIMIT; SECOND HARMONICS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84863752247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.013164     Document Type: Article

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