Polarization Insensitive Wavelength Conversion Based on Orthogonal Pump Four-Wave Mixing for Polarization Multiplexing Signal in High-Nonlinear Fiber

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 5767-5774

  Lu, Jia ^a   Chen, Lin ^a   Dong, Z ^a   Cao, Z ^a   Wen, Shuangchun ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Four wave mixing (FWM); nonlinear optics; optical multiplexing; polarization insensitivity; wavelength conversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008048343     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: 15582213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2034611     Document Type: Article

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