A New Class of High-Resolution Measurements of Arbitrary-Dispersion Fibers: Localization of Four-Photon Mixing Process

Author

Myslivets, Evgeny ; Alic, Nikola ; Windmiller, Joshua Ray ; Radic, Stojan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Volume

27

Issue

3

fYear

2009

Firstpage

364

Lastpage

375

Abstract

A new technique for dispersion mapping of low dispersion fibers is reported. A counter-colliding pump-probe power transfer is used to achieve localized four-photon mixing at arbitrary waveguide locations. By controlling the position and strength of the counter-colliding interaction, the entire waveguide length is scanned to obtain high-resolution dispersion map. The new technique is used to demonstrate meter-scale dispersion retrieval in highly nonlinear fibers for the first time.

Keywords

multiwave mixing; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre testing; arbitrary-dispersion waveguide; counter-colliding strength; dispersion mapping; four-photon mixing process; high-nonlinear fibers; high-resolution measurement; meter-scale dispersion retrieval; pump-probe power transfer; Dispersion; Fiber nonlinear optics; Fluctuations; Optical fiber devices; Optical frequency conversion; Optical mixing; Optical waveguides; Spatial resolution; Wavelength measurement; Wideband; Highly nonlinear fiber; parametric process; phase matching; stimulated Brillouin scattering;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2008.2009072

Filename

4785276