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Periodically poled LiNbO 3 ridge waveguide for high-gain phase-sensitive amplifier

Tadashi Kishimoto, Koji Inafune, Yoh Ogawa, Hitoshi Murai

Published Jul 3, 2016• 0 citations

Abstract

We have developed a periodically poled LiNbO 3 ridge waveguide device and experimentally demonstrated a phase-sensitive amplification with a high internal phase-sensitive parametric gain of 19.8 dB based on a cascaded SHG and DFG process.

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