DocumentCode
1157332
Title
Fibre optical parametric amplifiers with circularly-polarised pumps
Author
Marhic, M.E. ; Wong, K. K Y ; Kazovsky, L.G.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Stanford Univ., CA, USA
Volume
39
Issue
4
fYear
2003
fDate
2/20/2003 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
350
Lastpage
351
Abstract
A fibre optical parametric amplifier with orthogonal circularly-polarised pumps requires only half the pump power of an amplifier with linearly-polarised pumps to achieve a given gain. The gain is also independent of the polarisation of the input signal.
Keywords
optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre polarisation; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; circularly-polarised pumps; fibre optical parametric amplifier; input signal gain; orthogonal pumps; polarisation independent gain; pump power;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:20030266
Filename
1184060
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