Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 42, Issue s1, 105002(2015)

Theoretical and Experimental Research of Polarization Insensitive Optical Wavelength Convertor in a Photonic Crystal Fiber

Hu Hui1,2,3、*, Duan Tao1, Qian Fengchen1,2, Huang Xinning1,2, Su Yulong1,2,3, Wang Wei1,2, Han Biao1,2, Feng Huan1,2, and Xie Xiaoping1
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    A single pump polarization-insensitive and widely tunable all-optical wavelength conversion for 10 Gbit/s non-return-to-zero (NRZ) signal is experimentally demonstrated by means of four-wave-mixing (FWM) in highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber (PCF). The residual birefringence in the 50 m dispersion-flattened guarantees the FWM-based wavelength conversion to be polarization insensitive when the pump polarization is exactly at 45° to the birefringent axes of the PCF. Experimental results show that the polarization dependence of FWM in the PCF can be decreased to be less than 1 dB over 28 nm of wavelength tunable operation.The conversion efficiencies are better than -13 dB and the Q factor of idler signal is larger than 7 over the conversion range with signal polarization change.

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    Hu Hui, Duan Tao, Qian Fengchen, Huang Xinning, Su Yulong, Wang Wei, Han Biao, Feng Huan, Xie Xiaoping. Theoretical and Experimental Research of Polarization Insensitive Optical Wavelength Convertor in a Photonic Crystal Fiber[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2015, 42(s1): 105002

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    Paper Information

    Category: Optical communication

    Received: Jan. 13, 2015

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Sep. 14, 2015

    The Author Email: Hui Hu (johnhuihui@126.com)

    DOI:10.3788/cjl201542.s105002

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