High-conversion-efficiency widely-tunable all-fiber optical parametric oscillator.

A high-conversion-efficiency widely-tunable all-fiber optical parametric oscillator is described. It is based on modulation instability in the normal dispersion regime near the fiber's zero-dispersion wavelength. A 40 m long dispersion-shifted fiber is used in a synchronously pumped ring cavity. We demonstrate continuous sideband tuning from 1300 to 1500 nm and 1600 to 1860 nm by tuning the pump wavelength between 1532 and 1556 nm. Internal conversion efficiencies of up to 40% are achieved.

[1]  L. Kazovsky,et al.  Wide-band tuning of the gain spectra of one-pump fiber optical parametric amplifiers , 2004, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics.

[2]  Peter A. Andrekson,et al.  Fiber-based optical parametric amplifiers and their applications , 2002 .

[3]  Guy Millot,et al.  Experimental observation of a new modulational instability spectral window induced by fourth-order dispersion in a normally dispersive single-mode optical fiber , 2003 .

[4]  M Haelterman,et al.  Continuous-wave ultrahigh-repetition-rate pulse-train generation through modulational instability in a passive fiber cavity. , 2001, Optics letters.

[5]  Leonid G. Kazovsky,et al.  Continuous-wave fiber optical parametric oscillator , 2002 .

[6]  M. Kishi,et al.  Dispersion-flattened-fibre optical parametric oscillator for wideband wavelength-tunable ps pulse generation , 2003 .

[7]  H A Haus,et al.  Modulational instability oscillation in nonlinear dispersive ring cavity. , 1988, Physical review. A, General physics.

[8]  L G Kazovsky,et al.  92% pump depletion in a continuous-wave one-pump fiber optical parametric amplifier. , 2001, Optics letters.

[9]  R. Leonhardt,et al.  Widely tunable optical parametric generation in a photonic crystal fiber. , 2005, Optics letters.

[10]  J R Taylor,et al.  Continuous-wave, totally fiber integrated optical parametric oscillator using holey fiber. , 2004, Optics letters.

[11]  P. Kumar,et al.  A microstructure-fiber-based 10-GHz synchronized tunable optical parametric oscillator in the 1550-nm regime , 2003, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters.

[12]  Stefano Trillo,et al.  Third-order three-wave mixing in single-mode fibers: exact solutions and spatial instability effects , 1991 .

[13]  K. Suzuki,et al.  Parametric soliton laser. , 1989, Optics letters.

[14]  A. Hasegawa,et al.  Tunable coherent IR and FIR sources utilizing modulational instability , 1980 .

[15]  R. Leonhardt,et al.  Effect of dispersion fluctuations on widely tunable optical parametric amplification in photonic crystal fibers. , 2006, Optics express.

[16]  Marco Fiorentino,et al.  Optical parametric oscillator based on four-wave mixing in microstructure fiber. , 2002, Optics letters.

[17]  W A Reed,et al.  Phase matching in the minimum-chromatic-dispersion region of single-mode fibers for stimulated four-photon mixing. , 1981, Optics letters.

[18]  G. Agrawal,et al.  Broadly tunable femtosecond parametric oscillator using a photonic crystal fiber. , 2005, Optics letters.

[19]  Rainer Leonhardt,et al.  Scalar modulation instability in the normal dispersion regime by use of a photonic crystal fiber. , 2003, Optics letters.