Title :
Demonstration of two-pump fibre optical parametric amplification
Author :
F.S. Yang;M.C. Ho;E. Marhic;L.G. Kazovsky
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Stanford Univ., CA, USA
Abstract :
The authors demonstrate a two-pump fibre optical parametric amplifier. The pumps were pulsed, each with 2.3 W peak power. A gain of /spl sim/8 dB was observed between the pumps near 1550 nm in a 200 m long fibre. This agrees well with theory.
Keywords :
Optical pumping
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19971206
