All-Optical Signal Reshaping of a 40 Gb/s RZ Signal by Dual-Stage Pump Modulated Four-Wave-Mixing
All-optical signal reshaping is demonstrated with a 40 Gb/s RZ signal by using two cascaded pump modulated four-wave-mixing processes. A 5 dB improvement in the receiver sensitivity is reported for a degraded signal input.
Fully dispersion controlled triangular-core nonlinear photonic crystal fiber
We demonstrate the first nonlinear fiber where both dispersion level and slope can be fully controlled in a broad wavelength range while maintaining low loss and a high nonlinear coefficient. Lowest slope obtained is l.10/sup -3/ps/(km.nm/sup 2/).
HRTEM study of orthorhombic zirconia in MgO-PSZ
High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) was used to study the phase of orthorhombic ZrO2 formed in magnesia partially stabilized zirconia (MgO-PSZ) during HRTEM specimen preparation. Based on the three reported crystal structures of orthorhombic ZrO2, with the space groups Pbcm, Pbc21 and Pbca, here it is shown that orthorhombic ZrO2 formed in MgO-PSZ has the Pbcm structure.