Title :
Fiber Optic Parametric Amplifier With 10-dB Net Gain Without Pump Dithering
Author :
Lundstrom, Carl ; Malik, Rohit ; Gruner-Nielsen, L. ; Corcoran, B. ; Olsson, Samuel L. I. ; Karlsson, Magnus ; Andrekson, Peter A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Microtechnol. & Nanosci., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Goteborg, Sweden
Abstract :
We present a stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS)-suppressed fiber optic parametric amplifier/wavelength converter constructed from four highly nonlinear fiber pieces with applied strain gradients and separated by isolators. The effective total SBS threshold increase is about 11 dB, and a net parametric gain of 10 dB is obtained without any pump dithering.
Keywords :
multiwave mixing; nonlinear optics; optical fibre amplifiers; stimulated Brillouin scattering; applied strain gradients; four-wave mixing; isolators; noise figure 10 dB; nonlinear fiber pieces; stimulated Brillouin scattering; suppressed-fiber optic parametric amplifier; wavelength converter; Gain; Isolators; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Scattering; Strain; Fiber nonlinear optics; four-wave mixing; optical amplifiers; stimulated Brillouin scattering;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2012.2230160
