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IEEE/LEOS Summer Topical Meetings

Applications of Fiber-Based Phase-Sensitive Parametric Amplifiers

Carl Lundström

Published Jul 1, 2014• 3 citations
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Abstract

A review of recent experimental progress on fiber-based phase sensitive parametric amplifiers is provided and applications in optical communications, in particular in transmission links, are discussed.
DOI
10.1109/sum.2014.55

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