Tunable single-to-dual channel wavelength conversion of picosecond pulses based on four-wave mixing in microstructure fibers

✍ Scribed by Xia Zhang; Xiaomin Ren; Yongzhao Xu; Zinan Wang; Yongqing Huang

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 202 KB
• Volume: 50
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0895-2477
• DOI: 10.1002/mop.23398

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

All optical wavelength conversion between picosecond pulses based on four‐wave mixing (FWM) is experimentally demonstrated in 80‐m dispersion‐flatted high nonlinear microstructure fibers (MF). The pulsed signal with 10‐GHz repetition rate and 1.6‐ps pulse width is used as pump wave. In the experiments, both down‐ and up‐conversion are obtained in this type of wavelength converter. Moreover, tunable single‐to‐dual channel wavelength conversion is experimentally observed. The experiment results imply that it is possible to realize tunable single‐to‐multiple channel wavelength conversion. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 50: 1453–1455, 2008; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.23398