In-line phase sensitive amplifier based on PPLN waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 12077-12084

  Umeki, Takeshi ^a   Asobe, Masaki ^a   Takenouchi, Hirokazu ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; WAVEGUIDES;

FIBER NONLINEARITIES; OPTICAL INJECTION LOCKING; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION; PERIODICALLY POLED LINBO; PHASE REGENERATION; PHASE SENSITIVE AMPLIFIERS; PHASE-SENSITIVE AMPLIFICATIONS; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION TECHNIQUES;

PHASE SHIFT KEYING;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FIBER OPTICS; LASER; OSCILLOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; OSCILLOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 84878606417     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.012077     Document Type: Article

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