Four-wave mixing based 10-Gb/s tunable wavelength conversion using a holey fiber with a high SBS threshold

Lee, Ju Han; Belardi, Walter; Furusawa, Kentaro; Petropoulos, P.; Yusoff, Z.; Monro, Tanya M.; Richardson, David J.

doi:10.1109/lpt.2002.807928

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“…The novel dispersion properties and high nonlinear coefficient obtainable can be used in numerous other ways, where the standard nonlinear fiber and the dispersionshifted fibers (DSF) have been used before. Applications count Raman Amplification [69,70] optical parametric amplifiers [71,72], soliton generation, guiding and compression [73][74][75] and Wavelength Conversion [2,76,77]. The high nonlinear coefficient obtainable reduces the need for long fiber lengths with for some applications greatly improved performance.…”

Section: Telecommunication Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction to nonlinear photonic crystal fibers

Hansen

2005

J Optic Comm Rep

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Owing to the unique dispersion properties and high nonlinear coefficient, the small-core nonlinear photonic crystal fiber is among the most studied type in the class of microstructured fibers. We present a review of the basic aspects of nonlinear photonic crystal fibers with focus on dispersion design. The description of fiber design includes examples of fibers for use in both the telecom wavelength range and below. Moreover, we give an introduction to femtosecond supercontinuum generation and the effects of choice of pumping wavelength in relation to fiber dispersion. Finally, we present a range of application examples from the field of supercontinuum generation and telecommunication.

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Section: Telecommunication Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction to nonlinear photonic crystal fibers

Hansen

2005

J Optic Comm Rep

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“…Since the effective index of the holey cladding depends on the air hole arrangement and the wavelength, PCFs bring unique properties not seen in conventional optical fibers. [1][2][3][4] Hence, PCFs have been applied as functional fibers, for example, for dispersion control, 5,6) supercontinuum generation, [7][8][9] wavelength conversion, [9][10][11] and so on. Since low-loss PCFs were developed, 12,13) PCFs have been expected as transmission lines in fiber optic communication systems.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In using a light source with no output fiber, the light from the light source is launched into the PCF through its facet, where an objective lens is used so that the diameter of the Gaussian beam from the light source matches the MFD of the PCF. 1,8,10,11) Index matching fluid is sometimes used to strip off light in cladding modes. 1) It was reported that >50% of coupling efficiency was obtained using an objective lens.…”

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Light propagation characteristics in photonic crystal fibers with α-power profiles of air hole diameter distributions and their application to fiber collimator

Yokota¹,

Higuchi²,

Imai³

2016

Jpn. J. Appl. Phys.

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Light propagation characteristics in photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) with α-power profiles of air hole diameter distributions were theoretically investigated. It was clarified that the intensity peak of the beam propagating in the PCF with Gaussian beam excitation varied periodically with little power attenuation. It was found that the envelope of the periodic intensity variation depended on α. We theoretically demonstrated that the PCF with the α-power profile of the air hole diameter distribution could be applied to a collimator for a conventional PCF with uniform air holes in Gaussian beam excitation to reduce coupling loss, where a PCF of appropriate length with the α-power air hole diameter distribution was spliced to a conventional PCF. It was also found that the coupling efficiency was higher for a larger α.

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“…At present, the wavelength conversion mechanisms of the converters constructed from microstructure fibers are due to cross-phase modulation and four-wave mixing [10][11]. The self-phase modulation (SPM) effects is usually used for pulse shaping in all-optical switch [12].…”

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All-optical wavelength converter based on self-phase modulation effects in microstructure fibers

Zhang

Yang

et al. 2006

SPIE Proceedings

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An all-optical tunable wavelength converter using a combination of self-phase modulation (SPM) effects in highly nonlinear microstructure fibers and narrowband spectral filtering is investigated, which is reported for the first time to our knowledge. Wavelength conversion over a±4nm bandwidth of a 10Gb/s date rate is obtained with good efficiency. A 25-m-long microstructure fiber with zero-dispersion wavelength at 800nm is used as the nonlinear medium. The core diameter of microstructure fiber is 2.4µm and the outer diameter is 125µm. The nonlinearity is γ=36km-1W-1, which is 20 times higher that that of a conversional dispersion-shifted fiber. The dispersion at the wavelength of 1550nm is ~+150ps/nm-km and the loss is 40dB/km.

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Four-wave mixing based 10-Gb/s tunable wavelength conversion using a holey fiber with a high SBS threshold

Cited by 102 publications

References 12 publications

Introduction to nonlinear photonic crystal fibers

Introduction to nonlinear photonic crystal fibers

Light propagation characteristics in photonic crystal fibers with α-power profiles of air hole diameter distributions and their application to fiber collimator

All-optical wavelength converter based on self-phase modulation effects in microstructure fibers

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