• DocumentCode
    338628
  • Title

    Tunable pulsed fiber-optic parametric oscillator

  • Author

    Serkland, D.K. ; Kumar, P.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, USA
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    21-26 Feb. 1999
  • Firstpage
    13
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a tunable optical parametric oscillator that derives gain from a nonlinear fiber Sagnac interferometer pumped by 7.7-ps pulses at 1539 nm. We report a 74-nm-wide tuning range centered on the pump wavelength.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; optical fibres; optical parametric oscillators; optical tuning; nonlinear fiber Sagnac interferometer; optical tuning; ps pulses; pump wavelength; tunable pulsed fiber-optic parametric oscillator; tuning range; Bandwidth; Fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical pulses; Oscillators; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers; Tunable circuits and devices;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 1999, and the International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Fiber Communication. OFC/IOOC '99. Technical Digest
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-582-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.1999.767778
  • Filename
    767778