Single WDM channel efficient wavelength shifting and/or amplification using counterpropagating optical parametric amplifiers

• Published in: Optics communications Vol. 285; no. 18; pp. 3886 - 3889
• Main Authors: Alibart, Olivier, De Micheli, Marc, Baldi, Pascal
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 15.08.2012
• Subjects: All-optical devices; Counterpropagating optical parametric interactions; Integrated optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical communications; Quasi-phase-matching; Integrated optics; Quasi-phase-matching; Optical communications; All-optical devices; Counterpropagating optical parametric interactions; Nonlinear optics

We theoretically and numerically study the difference frequency generation and the signal amplification bandwidth together with the pump wavelength acceptance for counterpropagating optical parametric amplifiers. It is shown that the specific advantage of those amplifiers is that the DFG and amplifi...