Pump-noise transfer in dual-pump fiber-optic parametric amplifiers: walk-off effects.

Impact of Input Pump Profile on the Gain Spectrum and the Saturation Behavior of One-Pump Fiber Optical Parametric Amplifiers

In this article, the impact of input pump profile on the gain spectrum as well as the saturation behavior of one-pump fiber optical parametric amplifiers (FOPAs) is investigated. Since in practical circumstances, pump sources used for FOPAs have Lorentz-Gaussian profile instead of Gaussian, a more realistic case is considered for simulating FOPAs in this article. The results of simulations for ...

Impact of Fourth-Order Dispersion Coefficient on the Gain Spectrum and the Saturation Behavior of One-Pump Fiber Optical Parametric Amplifiers

In this paper, the gain spectrum and the saturation behavior of one-pump fiber optical parametric amplifiers (1-P FOPAs) are investigated by taking into account the fourth-order dispersion coefficient b4 in the analysis. The results show that it is necessary to consider b4 in the analysis when the wavelength difference between the signal and pump waves is large enough and/or whenever the pump w...

Experimental investigation of saturation effect on pump-to-signal intensity modulation transfer in single-pump phase-insensitive fiber optic parametric amplifiers

Contribution on the study of the all-optical processing devices and subsystems of future broadband optical networks

In this thesis, all-optical processing for future optical networks is studied by means of parametric processes in optical fibers. Parametric processes are nonlinear effects which arise in optical fibers when high-powered waves are properly placed at specific spectral positions. The properties of parametric processes are defined by the optical fiber characteristics, the power and the wavelength ...

Vector theory of four-wave mixing: polarization effects in fiber-optic parametric amplifiers

We present a vector theory of four-wave mixing and use it to study the polarization-dependent nature of fourwave mixing and the conditions under which the gain of a dual-pump fiber-optic parametric amplifier becomes polarization independent. We find that in the absence of selfand cross-phase modulations, any pair of orthogonally polarized pumps can provide polarization-independent gain, but thi...