Title :
A multiwavelength short pulse source based on saturated optical fiber parametric amplification
Author :
Dahan, David ; Shumakher, Evgeny ; Eisenstein, Gadi
Author_Institution :
Electr. Eng. Dept., TECHNION, Haifa
Abstract :
We describe a 10-GHz multiwavelength pulse source based on high-order four-wave mixing products generated by a saturated optical fiber parametric amplifier. We employ a nonlinear modulation scheme for the pump which plays two roles. First, it enables us to use a high pump power with no phase modulation, and second, it yields narrow (6 ps) pulses with a constant spectral width and the same jitter level (~150 fs) for the signal and three idler wavelengths
Keywords :
multiwave mixing; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical modulation; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; optical saturation; spectral line narrowing; 10 GHz; 6 ps; high-order four-wave mixing; jitter level; narrow spectral width; nonlinear modulation; saturated optical fiber parametric amplifier; short pulse source; Four-wave mixing; Jitter; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fibers; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Phase modulation; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Space vector pulse width modulation; Optical parametric amplifiers; optical pulse generation; wavelength-division multiplexing;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2005.863631
