Fiber optical parametric amplifier pulse source: theory and experiments

Author

Torounidis, Thomas ; Karlsson, Magnus ; Andrekson, Peter A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Microtechnology & Nanoscience, Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Gothenburg, Sweden

Volume

23

Issue

12

fYear

2005

Firstpage

4067

Lastpage

4073

Abstract

An evaluation of a fiber optical parametric amplifier (FOPA)-based pulse source in terms of pulse width and chirp is presented. Experiments are performed when operating the FOPA as a pulse source, requiring a sinusoidally modulated pump. The FOPA is generating pulses at 10 GHz, and are measured using a streak camera capable of measuring pulses as a function of time, wavelength, and intensity. Experimental results are presented together with a theory for chirp and pulse widths that show good agreement.

Keywords

chirp modulation; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; 10 GHz; chirp; fiber optical parametric amplifier; optical pulse generation; pulse source; pulsewidth; sinusoidally modulated pump; streak camera; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber theory; Optical modulation; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse measurements; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Space vector pulse width modulation; Stimulated emission; Four-wave mixing; highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF); nonlinear optics; optical fiber communication; optical parametric amplifier; parametric processes; pulse generation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2005.859436

Filename

1566733