Title :
Impact of dispersion slope on performance of fibre-optic-parametric-amplifier-based alloptical amplitude limiter
Author :
Matsumoto, Morio
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Opto-Mechatron., Wakayama Univ., Wakayama, Japan
Abstract :
The high-speed amplitude limiting performance of a saturated fibre-optic parametric amplifier is numerically studied. It is shown that walk-off between the pump and signal pulses caused by a large dispersion slope makes the saturation behaviour less efficient and induces interaction between neighbouring signal pulses mediated by temporally-broadened pump depletion, both of which degrade the limiter performance.
Keywords :
numerical analysis; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre theory; optical limiters; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; optical saturation; all-optical amplitude limiter; dispersion slope; high-speed amplitude limiting performance; numerical analysis; pump pulses; saturated fibre-optic parametric amplifier; saturation behaviour; signal pulses; temporally-broadened pump depletion;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el.2012.3293
