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Reciprocating optical modulation on Erbium doped LiNbO3 for harmonic generation

So Kogahara, Hirochika Nakajima, Satoshi Shinada, Shinya Nakajima, Tetsuya Kawanishi, Masayuki Izutsu

Published May 1, 2007• 1 citation
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Abstract

We demonstrated reciprocating optical modulation with Er-doped LiNbO3 for highorder sideband generation, where reciprocating modulation process can be selectively amplified. The sideband component of 50 GHz was successfully enhanced. The gain was 8 dB.
DOI
10.1109/qels.2007.4431438

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