Demonstration of 26 dB on-off gain of a two-pump fiber optical parametric amplifier

We experimentally demonstrated, for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, a two-pump fiber optical parametric amplifier having /spl sim/26 dB on-off gain with /spl plusmn/1.5 dB ripple over 30 nm bandwidth.

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