Demonstration of two-pump fiber optical parametric amplification

Author

Yang, Frank S. ; Ho, M.C. ; Marhic, Michel E. ; Kazovsky, Leonid G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Stanford Univ., CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

10-13 Nov 1997

Firstpage

122

Abstract

We describe, for the first time to our knowledge, experimental demonstration of a pulsed optical parametric amplifier (OPA) with 12 dB maximum gain and a CW OPA with 1.5 dB maximum gain. For the pulsed OPA demonstration, the pumps consisted of a DFB laser at 1555 nm and a tunable external-cavity laser (ECL) operating at 1533.2 nm. For the CW OPA, a 12 km dispersion-shifted fiber (DSF) was used for the nonlinear gain medium because the power per pump under CW condition was only 50 mW

Keywords

fibre lasers; optical fibre dispersion; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; 1.5 dB; 12 dB; 1533.2 nm; 1555 nm; 50 mW; CW OPA; DFB laser; dispersion-shifted fiber; maximum gain; nonlinear gain medium; power per pump; pulsed OPA; tunable external-cavity laser; two-pump fiber optical parametric amplification; Fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Gain; Nonlinear optics; Optical fibers; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1997. LEOS '97 10th Annual Meeting. Conference Proceedings., IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3895-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1997.630549

Filename

630549