Spurious four-wave mixing in two-pump fiber-optic parametric amplifiers

Author

Callegari, F.A. ; Boggio, J. M Chavez ; Fragnito, H.L.

Author_Institution

Opt. & Photonics Res. Center, Campinas, Brazil

Volume

16

Issue

2

fYear

2004

Firstpage

434

Lastpage

436

Abstract

We present an experimental study on four-wave mixing (FWM) between two signals within a two-pump fiber-optical parametric amplifier (2P-FOPA). We demonstrate that the intensity of FWM spurious tones depend strongly on the signal power and length of the nonlinear medium and present two regimes as a function of the pumps´ power. We also compare the amounts of FWM as a function of channel spacing in the 2P-FOPA with or without pumps and show that the presence of parametric gain enhances FWM over a broad spectral range.

Keywords

multiwave mixing; optical crosstalk; optical fibre amplifiers; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; wavelength division multiplexing; channel spacing; crosstalk; four-wave mixing; nonlinear medium; optical parametric amplifier; parametric gain; two-pump fiber-optic parametric amplifiers; wavelength-division multiplexing; Fiber nonlinear optics; Four-wave mixing; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pumping; Optical refraction; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2003.823086

Filename

1266448