Picosecond Photonic Crystal Fiber-Based Doubly Resonant Optical Parametric Oscillator

Author

Lei Zhang ; Sigang Yang ; Xiaojian Wang ; Doudou Gou ; Pengxiao Li ; Hongwei Chen ; Minghua Chen ; Shizhong Xie

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

Volume

26

Issue

7

fYear

2014

fDate

1-Apr-14

Firstpage

682

Lastpage

685

Abstract

A picosecond photonic crystal fiber-based doubly resonant optical parametric oscillator is demonstrated. A four-wavelength oscillator can be obtained by selecting a wavelength in signal cavity and a wavelength in idler cavity phase-mismatched with the one in signal cavity to oscillate simultaneously. The output light beams are improved significantly when the signal wavelength and the phase-matched idler wavelength are selected to oscillate simultaneously in the two cavities. In particular, the peak intensities of the output signal and idler are increased by 2.53-5.77 dB, the 3-dB bandwidths of the signal and idler are narrowed by 0.05-2.98 nm, and the pump-to-idler conversion efficiencies are improved by 2.2-3.8 times.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; holey fibres; optical parametric oscillators; optical resonators; photonic crystals; doubly resonant optical parametric oscillator; four-wavelength oscillator; output light beams; phase-mismatched idler cavity; picosecond photonic crystal fiber; pump-to-idler conversion efficiencies; signal cavity; Cavity resonators; Nonlinear optics; Optical fibers; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Oscillators; Optical parametric amplifier and oscillator; four-wave mixing; nonlinear optics; photonic crystal fiber;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2014.2301995

Filename

6719513