Four-wave-mixing enhancement in optical microfibers
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Abdul Khudus, M.I.M.; De Lucia, F.; Corbari, C.; Lee, T.; Sazio, P.; Horak, P.; Brambilla, G.
- Source
- 2016 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2016. :1-3 Mar, 2016
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical frequency conversion
Optical fiber dispersion
Optical fiber amplifiers
Fiber nonlinear optics
- Language
Four-Wave-Mixing (FWM) is enhanced by tailoring the modal effective index in optical microfibers to improve the phase matching conditions. An enhancement of >25dB was recorded in a 6-mm-long optical microfiber.