Title :
Reduced four-wave mixing crosstalk in a short fibre optical parametric amplifier
Author :
Jamshidifar, Mehdi ; Vedadi, Armand ; Marhic, Michel E.
Author_Institution :
IAT, Swansea Univ., Swansea, UK
Abstract :
Four-wave mixing crosstalk in a fibre OPA has been reduced by 16 dB by decreasing the fibre length from 340 m to 50 m and increasing the pump power to maintain the gain at 20 dB.
Keywords :
multiwave mixing; optical crosstalk; optical fibre amplifiers; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; four-wave mixing crosstalk; gain 20 dB; optical crosstalk reduction; optical parametric amplifier; optical pump power; short-fibre OPA; size 340 m to 50 m; Fiber nonlinear optics; Four-wave mixing; Gain; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fibers; Optical mixing; Optical pumping; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2009. ECOC '09. 35th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vienna
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5096-1
