Title :
Brillouin suppression through longitudinal structural variation in high nonlinearity silica holey fibers
Author :
Poletti, F. ; Furusawa, K. ; Yussoff, Z. ; Petropoulos, P. ; Broderick, N.G.R. ; Monro, T.M. ; Richardson, D.J.
Author_Institution :
Southampton Univ.
Abstract :
We consider longitudinal variation in the fiber structure as a method of increasing the Brillouin linewidth and threshold within high nonlinearity silica holey fibers. Strategies to control the associated variation in nonlinearity and dispersion along the fiber length are described
Keywords :
optical fibre dispersion; silicon compounds; stimulated Brillouin scattering; Brillouin linewidth; Brillouin suppression; Brillouin threshold; SiO2; fiber dispersion; high nonlinearity fibers; longitudinal structural variation; silica holey fibers; stimulated Brillouin scattering; Brillouin scattering; Fiber nonlinear optics; Holey fibers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fibers; Optical scattering; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Silicon compounds; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-803-9
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2006.215494
