Two-pump fiber OPAs with flat gain over 100 nm bandwidth

Author

Boggio, J. M Chavez ; Marconi, J.D. ; Bickham, S.R. ; Fragnito, H.L.

Author_Institution

Opt. & Photonics Res. Center, IFGWC. P., Campinas

fYear

2008

fDate

14-16 Jan. 2008

Firstpage

57

Lastpage

58

Abstract

In this paper we review recent experiments where well designed highly nonlinear fibers (HNLFs) give rise to flat gain over 115 nm is, also we discuss the feasibility of broadband two-pump optical parametric amplifiers (2P-FOPAs). It is believed that further improvements in designing and fabrication of HNLFs could result in 2P-OPAs with more than 200 nm. However, there is still one factor that we observed enhanced the gain ripple, and this is a phase mismatch introduced by the real part of the Raman susceptibility. Nevertheless, it was observed that the amount of gain ripple introduced by this effect varied from fiber to fiber.

Keywords

laser beams; nonlinear optical susceptibility; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre fabrication; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; Raman susceptibility; broadband two-pump optical parametric amplifiers; fiber fabrication; gain ripple; highly nonlinear fibers; phase mismatch; two-pump fiber OPA; Bandwidth; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical distortion; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pumping; Optical wavelength conversion; Polarization mode dispersion; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

IEEE/LEOS Winter Topical Meeting Series, 2008

Conference_Location

Sorrento

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1594-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1595-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOSWT.2008.4444397

Filename

4444397