Tunable Wavelength Multicasting Using Pulsed Pumping Four-Wave Mixing in a Highly Nonlinear Fiber

Author

Wang, Jian ; Sun, Junqiang ; Sun, Qizhen ; Cao, Hui

Author_Institution

Wuhan Nat. Lab. for Optoelectron., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan

fYear

2006

fDate

Nov. 2006

Firstpage

57

Lastpage

59

Abstract

We report tunable wavelength multicasting of picosecond pulses based on pulsed pumping four-wave mixing (FWM) in a highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF). By employing two or three input continuous-wave (CW) signals, single-to-dual, single-to-four, and single-to-six channel wavelength conversions are observed in the experiment, taking into account the evolution of CW optical waves into optical pulses during FWM

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; multicast communication; multiwave mixing; optical fibre communication; optical fibres; optical pumping; optical tuning; optical wavelength conversion; FWM; four-wave mixing; highly nonlinear fiber; optical waves; pulsed optical pumping; single-to-dual wavelength conversion; single-to-four wavelength conversion; single-to-six channel wavelength conversion; tunable wavelength multicasting; Fiber nonlinear optics; Four-wave mixing; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Optical saturation; Optical wavelength conversion; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optoelectronics, 2006 Optics Valley of China International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0816-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OVCISO.2006.302711

Filename

4085573