Photonic Crystal Fiber Based Wavelength-Tunable Optical Parametric Amplifier and Picosecond Pulse Generation

We report a fiber optical parametric amplifier (FOPA) based on a photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with optimized dispersion and nonlinear properties pumped by a mode-locked ytterbium-doped fiber laser. Wavelength-tunable parametric gain bands can be obtained by adjusting the pump wavelength from the ano...

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Main Authors: Lei Zhang, Sigang Yang, Xiaojian Wang, Doudou Gou, Wei Chen, Wenyong Luo, Hongwei Chen, Minghua Chen, Shizhong Xie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2014-01-01
Series:IEEE Photonics Journal
Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6902851/