Measurement of polarization dependent gain in a dual pumped fiber optical parametric amplifier

Author

Guimaraes, A. ; Arellano, W.A. ; Berendt, M.O. ; Fragnito, H.L.

Author_Institution

Inst. de Fisica Gleb Wataghin, Univ. Estadual de Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil

fYear

2001

fDate

11-11 May 2001

Firstpage

447

Lastpage

448

Abstract

Summary form only given. Optical parametric amplifiers (OPA) have been presented as an alternative way to provide gain in the 1550 nm window. Recently, several works reported two-pump OPA operation with net gain reaching from -5 dB, for CW pumping, and 25 dB for pulsed pumps. However, the polarization dependence of such gains was not reported. In this work, we report an improved technique for measurement of polarization dependent gain (PDG) in the OPA.

Keywords

optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre testing; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; optical tuning; 1550 nm; CW pumping; dual pumped fiber optical parametric amplifier; net gain; polarization dependence; polarization dependent gain measurement; two-pump OPA operation; Diffraction gratings; Gain measurement; Laser excitation; Laser tuning; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pumping; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-662-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2001.948026

Filename

948026