Title :
Four-wave-mixing suppression in Er3+ fiber amplifiers by backward pumping
Author :
Adel, P. ; Engelbrecht, M. ; Wandt, D. ; Fallnich, C.
Author_Institution :
laser Zentrum Hannovere, Germany
Abstract :
By backward pumping of an erbium doped fiber amplifier additional spectral components resulting of four wave mixing outside the original pulse chirp were suppressed leading to a substantially improved recompression of the amplified signal.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; erbium; multiwave mixing; optical fibre amplifiers; backward pumping; erbium doped fiber amplifier; four wave mixing; pulse chirp suppression; spectral component; Chirp; Doped fiber amplifiers; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2005. QELS '05
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-796-2
DOI :
10.1109/QELS.2005.1549112
