Title :
Efficient Four-Wave-Mixing at 1.55μm in a Short-Length Dispersion Shifted Lead Silicate Holey Fibre
Author :
Asimakis, S. ; Petropoulos, P. ; Poletti, F. ; Leong, J.Y.Y. ; Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H. ; Moore, R.C. ; Frampton, K.E. ; Feng, X. ; Loh, W.H. ; Monro, T.M ; Richardson, D.J.
Author_Institution :
Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK, Email: sya@orc.soton.ac.uk
Abstract :
We demonstrate four-wave-mixing in a 2.2m-long dispersion-tailored lead-silicate holey fibre with a conversion efficiency of -6dB and a bandwidth of ˜30nm. The potential of dispersion-optimised soft-glass holey fibres for such applications is also discussed.
Keywords :
Fabrication; Fiber nonlinear optics; Holey fibers; Laser excitation; Optical control; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pumping; Optical wavelength conversion; Pulse amplifiers; Wavelength measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications, 2006. ECOC 2006. European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes, France
Print_ISBN :
978-2-912328-39-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-2-912328-39-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2006.4800931
