Title :
Tailoring of saturation in fiber optical parametric amplifier by SBS-induced nonlinear phase
Author :
Chaoran Huang ; Xiaojie Guo ; Xuelei Fu ; Liang Wang ; Shu, Chester
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, China
Abstract :
We use gain-transparent SBS to defer/expedite the saturation of a fiber optical parametric amplifier by dynamically control the phase mismatch. The input signal power at saturation can be raised or reduced by ~6 dB.
Keywords :
optical fibre amplifiers; optical parametric amplifiers; optical phase matching; optical saturation; stimulated Brillouin scattering; SBS-induced nonlinear phase; fiber optical parametric amplifier; gain-transparent SBS; phase mismatch; saturation; Fiber nonlinear optics; Gain; Optical fiber amplifiers; Scattering;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
