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Frontiers in Optics

Optical Phase-Sensitive Amplification: Towards Ultra-Low Noise Transmission Links

Zhi Tong

Published Jan 1, 2012• 0 citations
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Abstract

Recent progress on χ(3)-based, ultra-low noise phase-sensitively amplified optical transmission links is reviewed, with a special focus on the ‘copier-PSA’ scheme. The implementation principle, performance advantages and technical challenges are discussed.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2012.fw1d.4

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