Distributed measurement of signal power evolution in a phase sensitive parametric amplifier
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Alishahi, F.; Vedadi, A.; Soto, M. A.; Denisov, A.; Mehrany, K.; Thevenaz, L.; Bres, C-S
- Source
- OFC 2014 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014. :1-3 Mar, 2014
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical fiber amplifiers
Optical fiber dispersion
Scattering
Optical fiber sensors
Probes
Optical variables measurement
- Language
A method to measure the signal power evolution along phase-sensitive parametric amplifiers is proposed using Brillouin optical time-domain analysis. Different evolutions along the fiber are reported by varying input wave phases, including amplification and de-amplification.