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Multi-broadcast wavelength conversion using simultaneous cSHG/DFG and cSFG/DFG

Mingjun Gong, Yuping Chen, Feng Lu, Xianfeng Chen

Published Jan 1, 2009• 1 citation
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Abstract

In this paper, we experimentally observed a 35nm type-I QPM SFG bandwidth in MgO:PPLN, and energy competition between SFG and SHG has been demonstrated firstly. Based on simultaneous cSFG/DFG and cSHG/DFG, a novel multi-broadcast wavelength conversion scheme is proposed, which has the advantage of broadcasting one signal to multiple idlers.

DOI
10.1364/acp.2009.tux4

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