On the Roles of Polarization and Raman-Assisted Phase Matching in Narrowband Fiber Parametric Amplifiers

Author

Willinger, Amnon ; Shumakher, Evgeny ; Eisenstein, Gadi

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng. Dept., Technion-Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa

Volume

26

Issue

14

fYear

2008

fDate

7/15/2008 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2260

Lastpage

2268

Abstract

This paper presents a comprehensive framework for the analysis of narrowband optical fiber parametric amplifiers. The novel vector model comprises virtually every significant nonlinear contribution, including a full stimulated Raman interaction model. We employ the model to calculate the influence of fiber random birefringence, as well as of longitudinal variations of linear and nonlinear propagation parameters on both gain and phase spectra.

Keywords

birefringence; light polarisation; optical fibres; optical parametric amplifiers; stimulated Raman scattering; Raman-assisted phase matching; birefringence; narrowband optical fiber parametric amplifiers; polarization; stimulated Raman interaction model; Birefringence; Frequency conversion; Narrowband; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical frequency conversion; Optical propagation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Vectors; Nonlinear optics; Raman scattering; optical parametric amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2008.923273

Filename

4610010