Wide-band tuning of the gain spectra of one-pump fiber optical parametric amplifiers

By suitably choosing the fiber properties, and by tuning the pump wavelength near the fiber zero-dispersion wavelength, one can in principle generate a wide variety of one-pump fiber optical parametric amplifier gain spectra. These can range from a very wide single region to two symmetric narrow gain regions far away from the pump. We have experimentally verified these predictions. With a highly nonlinear fiber, we have inferred the existence of gain over a single 400-nm region and measured a maximum on-off gain of 65 dB. With a common dispersion-shifted fiber, we have obtained tunable gain regions less than 1 nm wide, up to 200 nm from the pump; we have also shifted these by several nanometers by lowering the fiber temperature to 0/spl deg/C.

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