Gain enhancement in cascaded fiber parametric amplifier with quasi-phase matching:: Theory and experiment

被引：51

作者：

Kim, J ^{[1
]}

Boyraz, Ö ^{[1
]}

Lim, JH ^{[1
]}

Islam, MN ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Michigan, Dept Elect Engn & Comp Sci, Opt Sci Lab, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY | 2001年 / 19卷 / 02期

关键词：

nonlinear optics; nonlinear wave propagation; optical fiber amplifiers; optical fiber communication; optical fibers; optical frequency conversion; optical parametric amplifiers; optical propagation in nonlinear media;

D O I：

10.1109/50.917896

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 report a novel gain enhancement scheme for fiber-optic parametric amplifiers utilizing cascaded amplification and quasi-phase matching (QPM), The theory and method of QPM for four-wave mixing (FWM) are developed for the first time to our knowledge. In experimental implementations of the theory, we achieve >12 dB gain improvement in a three-stage dispersion-shifted (DS) fiber parametric amplifier. A 16-dB overall gain is obtained with 11 nm separation between zero-dispersion wavelength and pump wavelength. The experimental results show good agreement with theory and simulations. The influence of QPM on spectral characteristics of parametric gain is investigated with numerical simulations.

引用

页码：247 / 251

页数：5