Impact of pump phase modulation on the gain of fiber optical parametric amplifier

Author

Mussot, A. ; Durécu-Legrand, A. ; Lantz, E. ; Simonneau, C. ; Bayart, D. ; Maillotte, H. ; Sylvestre, T.

Author_Institution

Lab. d´´Opt. P. M. Duffieux, U.M.R. CNRS/Univ. de Franche-Comte, Besancon, France

Volume

16

Issue

5

fYear

2004

fDate

5/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1289

Lastpage

1291

Abstract

In practice, fiber optical parametric amplifiers are generally driven by a phase-modulated pump wave to avoid stimulated Brillouin back-scattering. We show both analytically and numerically that the phase modulation of the pump can induce strong parametric gain modulation and that this detrimental effect depends both on the rise-fall time of the phase modulator and on the fiber dispersion slope.

Keywords

optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; phase modulation; amplifier gain; fiber dispersion slope; optical fiber amplifier; parametric amplifier; parametric gain modulation; phase modulation; phase-modulated pump wave; pump phase modulation; stimulated Brillouin back-scattering; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fibers; Optical modulation; Optical pumping; Optical scattering; Phase modulation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2004.826123

Filename

1291487