Title :
Bridging the THz to RF gap by four-wave mixing in a highly nonlinear fiber
Author :
Rolland, Antoine ; Pouget, Lucien ; Brunel, Marc ; Loas, Goulc´hen ; Alouini, Mohamed-Slim
Author_Institution :
Inst. de Phys. de Rennes, Univ. de Rennes 1, Rennes, France
Abstract :
Down-conversion from a THz beat generated by a two-frequency solid-state laser to a RF intermediate frequency is performed with a zero dispersion-slope fiber. The two interleaved four-wave mixing spectra contain more than 75 harmonics.
Keywords :
microwave photonics; multiwave mixing; optical fibre dispersion; optical pulse generation; solid lasers; terahertz wave generation; RF intermediate frequency; THz beat generation; down-conversion; harmonics; highly nonlinear fiber; interleaved four-wave mixing spectra; two-frequency solid-state laser; zero dispersion-slope fiber; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical fibers; Optical mixing; Optical polarization;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
