Title :
Control of saturation characteristics in a fiber optical parametric amplifier by Raman amplification
Author :
Xiaojie Guo ; Xuelei Fu ; Shu, Chester
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, China
Abstract :
We report suppression of pump depletion and signal gain reduction in a fiber optical parametric amplifier with a backward Raman pump. The depletion and gain saturation characteristics can be controlled by tuning the Raman gain.
Keywords :
optical fibre amplifiers; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; Raman amplification; Raman gain tuning; backward Raman pump; fiber optical parametric amplifier; gain saturation; pump depletion; signal gain reduction; Gain; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical pumping; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
