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Phase‐matched three‐wave mixing in silica fiber optical waveguides
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In this paper, a phase matched nonlinear mixing in a silica fiber optical waveguide using the dispersion of the guide modes to compensate for bulk dispersion was observed, which is useful as a probe of waveguide properties and for the study of the nonlinearities of the medium.Abstract:
We have observed phase‐matched nonlinear mixing in a silica fiber optical waveguide using the dispersion of the guide modes to compensate for bulk dispersion. A tunable dye laser signal is mixed with a fixed‐frequency pump wave to generate output in specific waveguide modes at different frequencies. The technique is useful as a probe of waveguide properties and for the study of the nonlinearities of the medium.read more
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Parametric amplification and frequency conversion in optical fibers
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cw three-wave mixing in single-mode optical fibers
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Optical properties of high-delta air silica microstructure optical fibers.
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Controllable spatiotemporal nonlinear effects in multimode fibres
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Tunable coherent IR and FIR sources utilizing modulational instability
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