Modeling and measurement of the noise figure of a cascaded non-degenerate phase-sensitive parametric amplifier

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 14820-14835

  Tong, Zhi ^a   Bogris, Adonis ^b   Lundström, Carl ^a   McKinstrie, C J ^c   Vasilyev, Michael ^d   Karlsson, Magnus ^a   Andrekson, Peter A ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^d University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER AMPLIFIERS; NOISE FIGURE; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; QUANTUM THEORY;

CLASSICAL NOISE; FIBER OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIER (FOPA); INDUCED NOISE; MODELING AND MEASUREMENT; PHASE SENSITIVE; PHOTON NUMBERS; RELATIVE INTENSITY NOISE; SUBTRACTION METHOD;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 84886953629     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.014820     Document Type: Article

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