title: Dispersion-stabilized highly-nonlinear fiber for wideband parametric mixer synthesis.
abstract: Conventional highly-nonlinear fiber (HNLF) designs are optimized for high field-confinement but are also inherently susceptible to dispersion fluctuations. The design compromise prevents fiber-optical parametric mixers from possessing high power efficiency and extended operating bandwidth simultaneously. Using a new fiber waveguide design, we have fabricated and tested a new class of HNLF that possesses a significantly lower level of dispersion fluctuations while maintaining a high level of field-confinement comparable to that in conventional HNLFs. The fiber was used to demonstrate an all-fiber parametric oscillator operating in short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) band with a watt-level pump, for the first time.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. p2kuo@ucsd.edu
authors.forename: Bill P-P
authors.initials: BP
authors.lastname: Kuo
authors.forename: John M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Fini
authors.forename: Lars
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Grüner-Nielsen
authors.forename: Stojan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Radic
mesh_terms: D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D013685:Telecommunications / Q000295:instrumentation*