Fiber-optic parametric amplifier and oscillator based on intracavity parametric pump technique.
A cost-effective fiber optical parametric amplifier (FOPA) based on the laser intracavity pump technique has been proposed and demonstrated experimentally. The parametric process is realized by inserting a 1 km highly nonlinear dispersion-shifted fiber (HNL-DSF) into a fiber ring-laser cavity that consists of a high-power erbium-doped fiber (EDF) amplifier and two highly reflective fiber Bragg gratings. Compared with the conventional parametric pump schemes, the proposed pumping technique is free from a tunable semiconductor laser as the pump source and also the pump phase modulation. When the oscillating power of 530 mW in the EDF laser cavity is achieved to pump the HNL-DSF, a peak parametric gain of 27.5 dB and a net gain over 45 nm are obtained. Moreover, a widely tunable fiber-optic parametric oscillator is further developed using the FOPA as a gain medium.
Luo
Zhengqian
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Department of Electronic Engineering, Institute of Optoelectronic Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.
Zhong
Wen-De
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Tang
Ming
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Cai
Zhiping
Z
Ye
Chenchun
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Xiao
Xiaosheng
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