Experimental investigation of inter-modal four-wave mixing in few-mode fibers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 539-542

  Essiambre, Rene Jean ^a   Mestre, Miquel A ^a   Ryf, Roland ^a   Gnauck, Alan H ^a   Tkach, Robert W ^a   Chraplyvy, Andrew R ^a   Sun, Yi ^b   Jiang, Xinli ^b   Lingle, Robert ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b OFS   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber nonlinear optics; four wave mixing; optical fiber communication; optical fiber dispersion

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FEW-MODE FIBERS; FIBER NONLINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY SEPARATION; NONDEGENERATE FOUR-WAVE MIXING; OPTICAL FIBER DISPERSION; SPATIAL MODES; TERA HERTZ; ZERO-DISPERSION WAVELENGTH;

CHROMATIC DISPERSION; DISPERSIONS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION; PHASE MATCHING; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; TERAHERTZ WAVES;

FIBERS;

EID: 84874589146     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2013.2242881     Document Type: Article

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