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
fDate :
2/20/2003 12:00:00 AM
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;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20030266
