Brillouin gain coefficient measurement of Bismuth oxide-based photonic crystal fiber

Author

Lee, J.H. ; Song, K.Y. ; Yoon, H.J. ; Kim, J.S. ; Hasegawa, T. ; Nagashima, T. ; Ohara, S. ; Sugimoto, N.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

The Brillouin gain coefficient of a 1.16-m-long bismuth oxide-based photonic crystal fiber is measured by using a beat lock-in probe detection scheme to overcome the limitation caused by considerable pump beam back-reflection at splicing points. g_B is found to be ~4times10^-11 m/W.

Keywords

bismuth compounds; holey fibres; optical fibre testing; optical pumping; photonic crystals; splicing; stimulated Brillouin scattering; Bi₂O₃; Brillouin gain coefficient measurement; beat lock-in probe detection scheme; bismuth oxide-based photonic crystal fiber; pump beam back-reflection; size 1.16 m; splicing points; ultra-high nonlinearity fiber; Bismuth; Frequency; Gain measurement; Glass; Laser excitation; Optical fiber devices; Optical fibers; Photonic crystal fibers; Probes; Splicing; (060.4370) Nonlinear optics, fibers; (290.5900) Scattering, stimulated Brillouin;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Type

conf

Filename

5224505