Wide-band tuning of the gain spectra of one-pump fiber optical parametric amplifiers

ME Marhic, KKY Wong… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
By suitably choosing the fiber properties, and by tuning the pump wavelength near the fiber
zero-dispersion wavelength, one can in principle generate a wide variety of one-pump fiber …

Experimental and numerical investigation of the SBS-threshold increase in an optical fiber by applying strain distributions

JMC Boggio, JD Marconi… - Journal of lightwave …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study, experimentally and numerically, the increase of the stimulated Brillouin scattering
(SBS) threshold in dispersion-shifted fibers (DSFs) by applying three different tensile-strain …

All-optical 40 Gbit/s CSRZ-DPSK logic XOR gate and format conversion using four-wave mixing

J Wang, Q Sun, J Sun - Optics express, 2009 - opg.optica.org
We report simultaneous logic XOR gate for carrier-suppressed return-to-zero differential
phase-shift keying (CSRZ-DPSK) and format conversion from CSRZ-DPSK to return-to-zero …

Detailed investigation of intermodal four-wave mixing in SMF-28: blue-red generation from green

H Pourbeyram, E Nazemosadat, A Mafi - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
A short piece of commercial-grade SMF-28 optical fiber is pumped with a 680 ps high-peak
power green laser. Red Stokes and blue anti-Stokes beams are generated spontaneously …

Optimized design of two-pump fiber optical parametric amplifier with two-section nonlinear fibers using genetic algorithm

M Gao, C Jiang, W Hu, J Wang - Optics Express, 2004 - opg.optica.org
A new two-pump fiber optical parametric amplifier (FOPA) is presented, which is composed
of two-section high nonlinear fibers (HNLFs). Genetic algorithm (GA), a multivariate …

Investigation of the gain spectrum near the pumps of two-pump fiber-optic parametric amplifiers

ME Marhic, AA Rieznik, HL Fragnito - Journal of the Optical Society …, 2007 - opg.optica.org
We investigated the gain of two-pump fiber-optic parametric amplifiers (OPAs) when the
signal is close to one pump. We considered all eight types of OPAs introduced in [J. Opt …

A comprehensive study on crosstalk suppression techniques in fiber optical parametric amplifier by modulation format

BPP Kuo, PC Chui, KKY Wong - IEEE Journal of selected topics …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the presence of multiple-WDM input signals, ON-OFF keying (OOK)-modulated signals
suffer from crosstalk in fiber optical parametric amplifier (OPA) due to cross-gain modulation …

Polarization-interleaved WDM signals in a fiber optical parametric amplifier with orthogonal pumps

KKY Wong, GW Lu, LK Chen - Optics Express, 2007 - opg.optica.org
We have demonstrated a polarization-interleaved wavelength-division multiplexed system
with a two-orthogonal-pump optical parametric amplifier. The sensitivity has been improved …

Amplification of 12× 10 Gb/s WDM signals with negligible FWM crosstalk in a double-pumped fiber optical parametric amplifier

JMC Boggio, EAM Fagotto, ME Marhic… - Optics …, 2007 - Elsevier
We report on the amplification of 12× 10Gb/s wavelength-division-multiplexed signals by a
double-pumped fiber optic parametric amplifier (2P-FOPA). A gain of 10dB is obtained using …

Crosstalk in double-pumped fiber optic parametric amplifiers for wavelength division multiplexing systems

JMC Boggio, JD Marconi, HL Fragnito - Optics communications, 2006 - Elsevier
We study experimentally inter-channel crosstalk in double-pumped fiber optic parametric
amplifiers constructed with conventional dispersion shifted fibers (DSFs) having different …