• DocumentCode
    1770836
  • Title

    Control of saturation characteristics in a fiber optical parametric amplifier by Raman amplification

  • Author

    Xiaojie Guo ; Xuelei Fu ; Shu, Chester

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, China
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We report suppression of pump depletion and signal gain reduction in a fiber optical parametric amplifier with a backward Raman pump. The depletion and gain saturation characteristics can be controlled by tuning the Raman gain.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre amplifiers; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; Raman amplification; Raman gain tuning; backward Raman pump; fiber optical parametric amplifier; gain saturation; pump depletion; signal gain reduction; Gain; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical pumping; Stimulated emission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6989126