Broadband Single-Pumped Fiber-Optic Parametric Amplifiers

Author

Torounidis, Thomas ; Andrekson, Peter

Author_Institution

Dept. of Microtechnology & Nanoscience, Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Goteborg

Volume

19

Issue

9

fYear

2007

fDate

5/1/2007 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

650

Lastpage

652

Abstract

We analyze the impact of pump phase modulation (PM) on the bandwidth of single-pumped fiber-optic parametric amplifiers. The measured values and the calculations show that the impact on bandwidth by pump PM is small compared to the impact from the dispersion curvature. A bandwidth of 100 nm with a gain of 11.5plusmn2 dB is achieved. This is also used to build a widely tunable fiber ring laser

Keywords

laser tuning; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; phase modulation; broadband amplifiers; dispersion curvature; fiber ring laser; fiber-optic parametric amplifiers; pump phase modulation; single-pumped amplifiers; tunable laser; Bandwidth; Broadband amplifiers; Fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical pumping; Optical wavelength conversion; Phase modulation; Tunable circuits and devices; Four-wave mixing (FWM); highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF); optical parametric amplifier; tunable laser (TL);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2007.894959

Filename

4142790