Highly efficient four-wave mixing in an optical fiber with intensity dependent phase matching

Author

Yamamoto, T. ; Nakazawa, M.

Author_Institution

Opt. Transmission Line Lab., NTT Access Network Syst. Labs., Ibaraki, Japan

Volume

9

Issue

3

fYear

1997

fDate

3/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

327

Lastpage

329

Abstract

Wavelength conversion via four-wave mixing in an optical fiber is investigated under a pump intensity dependent phase-matching condition. To obtain a high conversion gain, we use a fiber with a small mode-field diameter (4.2 μm) and a small dispersion slope (0.0307 ps/km/nm²). When the signal wavelength is set so that it is 9.2 nm longer than the zero-dispersion wavelength of the fiber, we obtain a wavelength conversion gain of greater than 5 dB over a pump wavelength region of more than 8 nm.

Keywords

multiwave mixing; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre theory; optical frequency conversion; optical pumping; refractive index; 4.2 mum; 5 dB; high conversion gain; highly efficient four-wave mixing; intensity dependent phase matching; optical fiber; pump intensity dependent phase-matching condition; pump wavelength region; signal wavelength; small dispersion slope; small mode-field diameter; wavelength conversion; wavelength conversion gain; zero-dispersion wavelength; Chromatic dispersion; Couplings; Four-wave mixing; Frequency conversion; Nonlinear equations; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical frequency conversion; Optical wavelength conversion; Refractive index;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.556062

Filename

556062