Pulsed optical parametric oscillator based on the fiber Kerr nonlinearlity

Author

Serkland, D.K. ; Bartolini, G.D. ; Kumar, P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

3-8 May 1998

Firstpage

109

Abstract

Summary form only given. We have operated a degenerate optical parametric oscillator (DOPO) that employs a fiber Sagnac interferometer as a third order nonlinear parametric amplifier. As anticipated, the large bandwidth of the parametric amplifier results in a signal spectrum significantly broader than that of the pump. In future work, we hope to extend operation away from degeneracy, in order to achieve a fiber-based pulsed OPO that can be tuned across the 1550-nm communications band.

Keywords

fibre optic sensors; light interferometers; optical Kerr effect; optical parametric amplifiers; optical parametric oscillators; optical pumping; 1550-nm communications band; degenerate optical parametric oscillator; fiber Kerr nonlinearlity; fiber Sagnac interferometer; fiber-based pulsed OPO; large bandwidth; parametric amplifier; pulsed optical parametric oscillator; signal spectrum; third order nonlinear parametric amplifier; tuned; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical interferometry; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Oscillators; Pulse amplifiers; Sagnac interferometers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-339-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1998.675932

Filename

675932