Design, fabrication, and characterization of a highly nonlinear few-mode fiber

Autor: Joel Carpenter, Jitao Gao, Elham Nazemosadat, Peter A. Andrekson, Jochen Schröder, Chen Yang, Ming Tang, Magnus Karlsson, Songnian Fu, Weijun Tong
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Photonics Research. 7:1354
ISSN: 2327-9125
DOI: 10.1364/prj.7.001354
Popis: We present the design, fabrication, and characterization of a highly nonlinear few-mode fiber (HNL-FMF) with an intermodal nonlinear coefficient of 2.8 (W·km)−1, which to the best of our knowledge is the highest reported to date. The graded-index circular core fiber supports two mode groups (MGs) with six eigenmodes and is highly doped with germanium. This breaks the mode degeneracy within the higher-order MG, leading to different group velocities among corresponding eigenmodes. Thus, the HNL-FMF can support multiple intermodal four-wave mixing processes between the two MGs at the same time. In a proof-of-concept experiment, we demonstrate simultaneous intermodal wavelength conversions among three eigenmodes of the HNL-FMF over the C band.
Databáze: OpenAIRE