Measurement of dispersion in a highly nonlinear fiber using four wave mixing

Author

Aravind, P.A. ; Venkitesh, Deepa

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol. Madras, Chennai, India

fYear

2011

fDate

13-16 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

A method to correctly measure the dispersion of an optical fiber as a function of wavelength is proposed and demonstrated by utilizing the partially degenerate four wave mixing process. This is done for a highly nonlinear fiber for which the dispersion values are very small and there is no prior knowledge about the zero dispersion wavelength. Powers in the idler frequencies are measured for different values of wavelength separation between the pump wavelengths to extract the dispersion map of the highly nonlinear fiber.

Keywords

multiwave mixing; optical fibre dispersion; optical pumping; optical variables measurement; dispersion measurement; highly nonlinear fiber; idler frequencies; partially degenerate four wave mixing; pump wavelengths; wavelength separation; zero dispersion wavelength; Abstracts; Dispersion; Four-wave mixing; Optical amplifiers; Optical mixing; Optical pumping; Stimulated emission; Chromatic Dispersion (CD); Four Wave Mixing (FWM); Highly Nonlinear Fiber (HNLF);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition, 2011. ACP. Asia

Conference_Location

Shanghai

ISSN

2162-108X

Print_ISBN

978-0-8194-8961-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1117/12.904428

Filename

6210596