Carbon nanotube/polymer composite coated tapered fiber for four wave mixing based wavelength conversion

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 3651-3657

  Xu, Bo ^a   Omura, Mika ^b   Takiguchi, Masato ^a   Martinez, Amos ^a   Ishigure, Takaaki ^b   Yamashita, Shinji ^a   Kuga, Takahiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

10 GB/ S; A-CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBE/POLYMER COMPOSITES; EFFECTIVE NONLINEAR COEFFICIENT; FIBER TAPER; NONLINEAR OPTICAL DEVICES; NONRETURN TO ZERO SIGNAL; TAPERED FIBER; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION; WAVELENGTH TUNING;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

CARBON NANOTUBE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FIBER OPTICS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; POLYMERS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84874033331     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.003651     Document Type: Article

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