Journal article
Detailed characterization of CW- and pulsed-pump four-wave mixing in highly nonlinear fibers
Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark1
Ultra-fast Optical Communication, Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark2
Centre of Excellence for Silicon Photonics for Optical Communications, Centers, Technical University of Denmark3
OFS Fitel Denmark ApS4
We present a quantitative comparison of continuouswave- (CW) and pulsed-pump four-wave mixing (FWM) in commercially available highly nonlinear fibers (HNLFs), and suggest properties for which the CW and pulsed FWM bandwidths are limited in practice. The CWand pulsed-pump parametric gain is characterized experimentally for several HNLFs with various dispersion properties, including zero-dispersion wavelength fluctuations, and the results are interpreted in conjunction with detailed numerical simulations.
It is found that a low third order dispersion (TOD) is essential for the pulsed-pump FWM bandwidth. However, an inverse scaling of the TOD with the dispersion fluctuations, leads to different CW-optimized fibers, which depend only on the even dispersion-orders.
| Language: | English |
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| Year: | 2016 |
| Pages: | 4887-4890 |
| ISSN: | 15394794 and 01469592 |
| Types: | Journal article |
| DOI: | 10.1364/OL.41.004887 |
| ORCIDs: | Lillieholm, Mads , Galili, Michael and Oxenløwe, Leif Katsuo |
