Broadband generation of cascaded four-wave mixing products

Author

Cerqueira S, Arismar ; Boggio, J. M. Chavez ; Rieznik, A.A. ; Figueroa, H.E.H.

Author_Institution

Inst. de Ffsica "Gleb Wataghin", Campinas

fYear

2007

fDate

Oct. 29 2007-Nov. 1 2007

Firstpage

550

Lastpage

553

Abstract

A new method to efficiently generate broadband cascaded four-wave mixing products is presented. It consists of launching two strong pump waves near the zero-dispersion wavelength of an optical fiber. The obtained bandwidth of Four-Wave Mixing products is width- and wavelength-tunable by adjusting the laser wavelengths and their polarization states. This method has been applied to standard, dispersion-shifted and highly nonlinear fibers (HNLF). The maximum measured bandwidth of 300 nm has been obtained nonlinear fibers by using HNLF.

Keywords

laser tuning; multiwave mixing; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical frequency conversion; optical pumping; broadband generation; cascaded four-wave mixing products; dispersion-shifted fiber; laser wavelength-tunable device; nonlinear optical fiber; polarization states; pump waves; width-tunable device; zero-dispersion wavelength; Bandwidth; Diffraction gratings; Fiber gratings; Fiber lasers; Four-wave mixing; Frequency; Laser modes; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Quantum cascade lasers; Four-Wave Mixing; cascaded products and high nonlinear fibers; nonlinear optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference, 2007. IMOC 2007. SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Brazil

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0661-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0661-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMOC.2007.4404325

Filename

4404325