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Sensitive and accurate dispersion map extraction of HNLFs by frequency tuning of a degenerate FWM

Alishahi, F ; Sharif University of Technology

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2016.2601064
  3. Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc
  4. Abstract:
  5. A sensitive and accurate method for dispersion map extraction along an arbitrarily profiled highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF) is proposed. High sensitivity is achieved by positioning the wavelength of a signal at the band edge of the modulation instability (MI) spectrum generated by an intense degenerate four wave mixing (FWM) pump. In doing so, the to-be-extracted dispersion fluctuations leave a more drastic effect on the FWM-generated power since they either inflate or deflate the MI spectrum. The accuracy of the method is increased by monitoring the distribution of power along the fiber. Once the power distribution is measured along the fiber, dispersion map of the HNLF is extracted using an appropriate inverse algorithm, which reconstructs the dispersion with a high level of accuracy
  6. Keywords:
  7. Zero-dispersion wavelength ; Dispersion (waves) ; Extraction ; Fibers ; Nonlinear optics ; Optical parametric amplifiers ; Time domain analysis ; Brillouin optical time domain analysis ; Dispersion map ; Highly nonlinear fibers ; Parametric amplification ; Four wave mixing
  8. Source: Journal of Lightwave Technology ; Volume 34, Issue 18 , 2016 , Pages 4197-4204 ; 07338724 (ISSN)
  9. URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7546833