Title :
Pump-degenerate phase sensitive amplification in chalcogenide waveguides
Author :
Zhang, Ye ; Neo, R. ; Schroder, Jochen ; Husko, C. ; Lefrancois, S. ; Choi, D.-Y. ; Madden, Steve ; Luther-Davies, Barry ; Eggleton, Benjamin J.
Author_Institution :
Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Opt. Syst. (CUDOS), Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
fDate :
June 30 2013-July 4 2013
Abstract :
We demonstrate phase sensitive amplification based on pump-degenerate four-wave mixing in a dispersion-engineered chalcogenide waveguide. An extinction ratio of the on-chip gain of 11.4 dB is achieved by slicing the pump/signal/idler waves from a single source.
Keywords :
multiwave mixing; optical pumping; optical waveguides; chalcogenide waveguides; extinction ratio; four-wave mixing; idler waves; on-chip gain; phase sensitive amplification; pump-degenerate; Gain; Laser excitation; Optical fiber amplifiers; Pump lasers; System-on-chip; Waveguide lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2013.6600316
