• DocumentCode
    1955917
  • Title

    Polarization-insensitive single-pump optical parametric amplifier by depolarization of the pump

  • Author

    Luo, T. ; Yu, C. ; Yan, L.-S. ; Pan, Z. ; Wang, Y. ; Song, Y. ; Willner, A.E.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng.-Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    23-27 Feb. 2004
  • Firstpage
    346
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a polarization-insensitive single-pumped optical-parametric-amplifier by depolarizing the pump using a polarization controller followed by a piece of polarization-maintaining fiber with /spl sim/ 100-ps DGD. The polarization-dependent-gain is reduced from 8 dB to <1 dB.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre polarisation; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; polarization controller; polarization-dependent-gain; polarization-insensitive optical parametric amplifier; polarization-maintaining fiber; pump depolarization; single-pump optical parametric amplifier;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2004. OFC 2004
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-772-5
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1359280