IEEE/LEOS Summer Topical Meetings

PPLN-based phase sensitive amplifiers and their applications

Hirokazu Takenouchi, Takeshi Umeki, Osamu Tadanaga, Koji Enbutsu, Yutaka Miyamoto, Masaki Asobe

Published Jul 1, 2014• 1 citation

Abstract

We review our recent results for phase sensitive amplifiers based on periodically poled LiNbO3 waveguides. We also cover their optical communication applications such as regenerative repeater amplification and multilevel signal amplification.

DOI: 10.1109/sum.2014.56

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