• DocumentCode
    2011838
  • Title

    Polarization-independent two-pump fiber optical amplifier with polarization diversity

  • Author

    Kalogerakis, G. ; Marhic, M.E. ; Kazovsky, L.G.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Stanford Univ., CA, USA
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    5-10 March 2006
  • Abstract
    We propose and demonstrate a polarization independent two-pump fiber OPA based on polarization diversity. We achieve less than 0.4-dB PDG for 15.5-dB gain when the input signal polarization is swept over the Poincare sphere.
  • Keywords
    light polarisation; optical fibre amplifiers; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; 15.5 dB; OPA; PDG; Poincare sphere; polarization dependent gain; polarization diversity; two-pump fiber optical amplifier; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical modulation; Optical pumping; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-803-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2006.215649
  • Filename
    1636680