中国物理B ›› 2008, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (1): 205-210.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/17/1/036

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Widely tunable dual-pump parametric amplifiers with photonic crystal fibres

李永忠1, 钱列加1, 陆大全1, 范滇元1, 陈光辉2   

  1. (1)Research Facility for Advanced Materials, State Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials {\& Devices,\Department of Optical Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China; (2)The Electronics 23rd Research Institute, China Electronic Technology\Group Corporation, Shanghai 200437, China
  • 出版日期:2008-01-20 发布日期:2008-01-20
  • 基金资助:
    Project partially supported by the Shanghai Committee of Science and Technology, China (Grant Nos 05 SG 02 and 05 JC 14005) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos 60538010 and 10376009).

Widely tunable dual-pump parametric amplifiers with photonic crystal fibres

Li Yong-Zhong(李永忠)a), Qian Lie-Jia(钱列加)a), Lu Da-Quan(陆大全)a), Fan Dian-Yuan(范滇元)a), and Chen Guang-Hui(陈光辉)b)   

  1. a Research Facility for Advanced Materials, State Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials & Devices, Department of Optical Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China; b The Electronics 23rd Research Institute, China Electronic Technology Group Corporation, Shanghai 200437, China
  • Online:2008-01-20 Published:2008-01-20
  • Supported by:
    Project partially supported by the Shanghai Committee of Science and Technology, China (Grant Nos 05 SG 02 and 05 JC 14005) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos 60538010 and 10376009).

摘要: This paper theoretically studies the double-pumped fibre-optical parametric amplifiers (FOPAs) in photonic crystal fibres. Two distinct working regimes of FOPAs are researched, which depend on the dispersion at the central wavelength of the two pumps. Extremely broad tuning range can be obtained when the central pump wavelength is in the normal dispersion regime and is insensitive to the wavelength separation between the two pumps, while the tuning range is narrow in the anomalous dispersion regime and can be significantly enhanced by increasing the wavelength separation. Impacts of higher-order dispersions and temporal walk-off on the gain spectra are also discussed.

关键词: nonlinear optics, parametric amplification, photonic crystal fibres, dispersion

Abstract: This paper theoretically studies the double-pumped fibre-optical parametric amplifiers (FOPAs) in photonic crystal fibres. Two distinct working regimes of FOPAs are researched, which depend on the dispersion at the central wavelength of the two pumps. Extremely broad tuning range can be obtained when the central pump wavelength is in the normal dispersion regime and is insensitive to the wavelength separation between the two pumps, while the tuning range is narrow in the anomalous dispersion regime and can be significantly enhanced by increasing the wavelength separation. Impacts of higher-order dispersions and temporal walk-off on the gain spectra are also discussed.

Key words: nonlinear optics, parametric amplification, photonic crystal fibres, dispersion

中图分类号:  (Fiber lasers)

  • 42.55.Wd
42.60.By (Design of specific laser systems) 42.60.Fc (Modulation, tuning, and mode locking) 42.65.Hw (Phase conjugation; photorefractive and Kerr effects) 42.65.Yj (Optical parametric oscillators and amplifiers) 42.55.Tv (Photonic crystal lasers and coherent effects)