Title :
A solid one-dimensional microstructured optical fiber with high nonlinearity and low dispersion at 1.55μm
Author :
Feng, X. ; Camerlingo, A. ; Poletti, F. ; Petropoulos, P. ; Parmigiani, F. ; Horak, P. ; Loh, W.H. ; Richardson, D.J.
Author_Institution :
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Abstract :
We report on the fabrication of a solid one-dimensional microstructured fiber with high nonlinearity and low dispersion at 1.55 mum. A four-wave-mixing based tunable wavelength-conversion scheme was experimentally demonstrated in just 1.5 m of this fiber.
Keywords :
micro-optics; multiwave mixing; optical fibre dispersion; optical wavelength conversion; dispersion; four-wave-mixing based tunable wavelength-conversion; nonlinearity; one-dimensional microstructured optical fiber; wavelength 1.55 mum; Glass; Hafnium; Nonlinear optics; Optical device fabrication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical refraction; Preforms; Solids; Sulfur hexafluoride; microstructured optical fiber; nonlinear optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers & Electro Optics & The Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009. CLEO/PACIFIC RIM '09. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3829-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3830-3
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2009.5292481
