Nonlinear optical limits to power in fiber amplifiers

Author

Smith, A.V. ; Hadley, G.R. ; Farrow, R.L. ; Do, B.T.

Author_Institution

Sandia Nat. Labs., Albuquerque, NM

fYear

2008

fDate

4-9 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Stimulated Brillouin scattering, stimulated Raman scattering, four-wave mixing, self phase modulation, self focusing, and optical dielectric breakdown limit the power obtainable from fiber amplifiers. We explore the limits on nanosecond pulse amplification in LMA fibers.

Keywords

electric breakdown; high-speed optical techniques; multiwave mixing; optical fibre amplifiers; optical self-focusing; self-phase modulation; stimulated Brillouin scattering; stimulated Raman scattering; LMA fibers; fiber amplifiers; four-wave mixing; large-mode area fibers; nanosecond pulse amplification; nonlinear optical limits; optical dielectric breakdown limit; self focusing; self phase modulation; stimulated Brillouin scattering; stimulated Raman scattering; Brillouin scattering; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical scattering; Power amplifiers; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; (060,4370) Nonlinear optics, fibers; (190.4370) Nonlinear optics, fibers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-859-9

Type

conf

Filename

4571295