Title :
Truly arbitrary wavelength conversion by cascaded four-wave mixing in low dispersion slope SBS suppressed highly nonlinear fibers
Author :
Petit, Stéphane ; Kurosu, Takayuki ; Namiki, Shu ; Takahashi, Masanori ; Yagi, Takeshi
Author_Institution :
Network Photonics Res. Center, Nat. Inst. of Adv. Ind. Sci. & Technol., Tsukuba, Japan
Abstract :
A simple and efficient cascaded operation of wavelength conversion for any arbitrary input and output wavelengths over 30 nm can be realized, using two dispersion-decreasing highly nonlinear fibers with SBS suppressed by distributed strain.
Keywords :
multiwave mixing; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre testing; optical wavelength conversion; stimulated Brillouin scattering; cascaded four-wave mixing; fiber dispersion; nonlinear fibers; stimulated Brillouin scattering; wavelength conversion; Brillouin scattering; Capacitive sensors; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Four-wave mixing; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Optical wavelength conversion; Photonics; Probes; Wavelength conversion; FWM; SBS; Wavelength converter; highly nonlinear fiber;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Society Winter Topicals Meeting Series (WTM), 2010 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Majorca
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5240-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5241-5
DOI :
10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421933
