Title :
Wavelength and width-tunable optical pulses generated from four-wave mixing in a 35-cm bismuth oxide highly nonlinear optical fiber
Author :
Fok, Mable ; Shu, Chester
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin
Abstract :
We demonstrate a 10-GHz optical pulsed source based on four-wave mixing in a 35-cm bismuth-oxide based highly nonlinear optical fiber. The pulse width is continuously tunable from 22 to 46 ps over a wavelength range of 10 nm
Keywords :
bismuth compounds; multiwave mixing; optical fibres; optical pulse generation; 10 GHz; 22 to 46 ps; 35 cm; bismuth oxide fiber; four-wave mixing; highly nonlinear optical fiber; optical pulsed source; wavelength-tunable optical pulses; width-tunable optical pulses; Band pass filters; Bismuth; Diode lasers; Four-wave mixing; Laser tuning; Optical fibers; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Space vector pulse width modulation; Tunable circuits and devices;
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.2006.215518
