A narrow band phase sensitive fiber parametric amplifier

Author

Gershikov, A. ; Eisenstein, G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel

fYear

2012

fDate

14-17 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We present a widely tunable phase sensitive amplifier, based on narrow band parametric amplification in fibers. Using dispersion shifted fiber with a zero dispersion wavelength of 1549nm, and a pump in wavelength between 1549-1532, we obtained phase sensitive gain between 1344nm and 1781nm. The amplifier threshold is 7W and maximal gain was obtained for pump peak power of 25W. Maximal variance in the gain due to phase sensitivity was measured to be about 17dB.

Keywords

laser tuning; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre testing; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; amplifier threshold; dispersion shifted fiber; narrow band parametric amplification; narrow band phase sensitive fiber parametric amplifier; phase sensitive gain; power 25 W; pump peak power; tunable phase sensitive amplifier; wavelength 1549 nm to 1532 nm; zero dispersion wavelength; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Stimulated emission; Wavelength measurement; fiber amplifiers; narrow band gain; phase sensitive;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical & Electronics Engineers in Israel (IEEEI), 2012 IEEE 27th Convention of

Conference_Location

Eilat

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4682-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EEEI.2012.6376923

Filename

6376923