Third order cascaded Raman wavelength shifting in chalcogenide fibers

Author

Kulkarni, O.P. ; Xia, C.A. ; Lee, D.J. ; Kumar, M. ; Kuditcher, A. ; Islam, M.N. ; Terry, F.L., Jr. ; Freeman, M.J. ; Nolan, D.A. ; Aitken, B. ; Powley, M.L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Third order cascaded Raman shifting is used to generate light to 1867 nm in sulfide fibers, and the nonlinearity is measured to be ~5.7 times 10^-12 (m/W). Damage at ~1 GW/cm² limits the wavelength shift range.

Keywords

Raman lasers; chalcogenide glasses; distributed feedback lasers; erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pulse generation; semiconductor lasers; JkJk:Er; chalcogenide fibers; distributed feedback laser diode; erbium-doped fiber amplifier; light generation; optical parametric amplifier; sulfide fibers; third order cascaded Raman wavelength shifting; wavelength 1867 nm; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Fiber nonlinear optics; Glass; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Pulse generation; Silicon compounds; Springs; Stimulated emission; Wavelength measurement; (190.4370) Nonlinear optics, fibers; (190.5650) Raman effect;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627955

Filename

4627955