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Advances in Optical Sciences Congress

Four-wave mixing in slow light waveguides

Vishnupriya Govindan, Steve Blair

Published Jan 1, 2009• 0 citations
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Abstract

We study the effects of pulse distortion on four-wave mixing (FWM) for different slow-light architectures. REMZI has the highest FWM conversion. Distortion constraint limits the performance of FWM conversion in CROW with higher number of stages.
DOI
10.1364/sl.2009.jwb3

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