• DocumentCode
    3261073
  • Title

    Experimental study of elementary inter-modal nonlinear interactions in a long few-mode fiber

  • Author

    Essiambre, R.-J. ; Ryf, R. ; Mestre, M.A. ; Gnauck, A.H. ; Tkach, R.W. ; Chraplyvy, A.R. ; Sun, Yue ; Lingle, Robert

  • Author_Institution
    Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    8-10 July 2013
  • Firstpage
    119
  • Lastpage
    120
  • Abstract
    We report the results of an experimental investigation of inter-modal nonlinearities in a 4.7-km few-mode fiber (FMF). Both inter-modal cross-phase modulation (IM-XPM) and inter-modal four-wave mixing (IM-FWM) have been observed between waves separated by a several Terahertz.
  • Keywords
    multiwave mixing; optical fibres; optical modulation; phase modulation; FMF; IM-FWM; IM-XPM; distance 4.7 km; intermodal cross-phase modulation; intermodal four-wave mixing; intermodal nonlinear interactions; long few-mode fiber; Frequency conversion; Modulation; Optical mixing; Optimized production technology; Probes; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series, 2013 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Waikoloa, HI
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-5059-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PHOSST.2013.6614545
  • Filename
    6614545