Experimental Investigation of Inter-Modal Four-Wave Mixing in Few-Mode Fibers

被引：157

作者：

Essiambre, Rene-Jean ^{[1
]}

Mestre, Miquel A. ^{[1
]}

Ryf, Roland ^{[1
]}

Gnauck, Alan H. ^{[1
]}

Tkach, Robert W. ^{[1
]}

Chraplyvy, Andrew R. ^{[1
]}

Sun, Yi ^{[2
]}

Jiang, Xinli ^{[2
]}

Lingle, Robert, Jr. ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Alcatel Lucent, Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ 07733 USA

[2] OFS, Norcross, GA 30071 USA

来源：

IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS | 2013年 / 25卷 / 06期

关键词：

Fiber nonlinear optics; four-wave mixing; optical fiber communication; optical fiber dispersion; LIMITS;

D O I：

10.1109/LPT.2013.2242881

中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

We experimentally demonstrate nondegenerate four-wave mixing (FWM) between waves belonging to different spatial modes of a 5-km-long few-mode fiber (FMF). Of the three inter-modal FWM (IM-FWM) processes possible, two have been experimentally observed. These IM-FWM processes are found to be phase-matched over very large frequency separations of several Terahertz between the waves. In contrast to FWM in single-mode fibers that require operating near the zero-dispersion wavelength to achieve phase matching, IM-FWM in a FMF can be fully phase matched in the presence of large chromatic dispersion in each spatial mode.

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页码：539 / 542

页数：4