Tunable modulational instability sidebands via parametric resonance in periodically tapered optical fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 25096-25110

  Armaroli, Andrea ^a   Biancalana, Fabio ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ESTIMATES; CORRELATED PHOTON PAIRS; DETUNINGS; MAXIMUM GAIN; MODULATION INSTABILITIES; MODULATIONAL INSTABILITY; NON-LINEARITY; PARAMETRIC RESONANCE; PERIODIC VARIATION; PUMP WAVELENGTH; RESONANT PEAKS; TAPERED OPTICAL FIBERS; TAPERED PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER; TUNABILITIES;

PARAMETRIC DEVICES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

MODULATION;

EID: 84868255470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.025096     Document Type: Article

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