Microsecond Parametric Optical Delays

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 448-455

  Alic, Nikola ^a   Myslivets, E ^b   Moro, S ^b   Kuo, B P P ^b   Radic, Stojan ^b   Jopson, Robert M ^c   McKinstrie, Colin J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion; fiber optic communications; optical delay; parametric amplifiers; wavelength conversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008014531     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: 15582213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2032561     Document Type: Article

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