Design of an Interferometric Fiber Optic Parametric Amplifier for the Rejection of Unwanted Four-Wave Mixing Products

Vladimir Gordienko; Filipe M. Ferreira; Vitor Ribeiro; Nicholas Doran

doi:10.1364/OE.476884

Design of an Interferometric Fiber Optic Parametric Amplifier for the Rejection of Unwanted Four-Wave Mixing Products

Vladimir Gordienko, Filipe M. Ferreira, Vitor Ribeiro, Nicholas Doran

Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (AiPT)

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Abstract

We introduce a novel interferometric fiber optic parametric amplifier (FOPA) allowing for suppression of unwanted four-wave mixing products. We perform simulations of two configurations whereas one rejects idlers and the other rejects nonlinear crosstalk from the signal output port. The numerical simulations presented here demonstrate the practical feasibility of suppressing idlers across by >28 dB across at least 10 THz enabling the reuse of the idler frequencies for signal amplification and thus doubling the employable FOPA gain bandwidth. We demonstrate it can be achieved even when the interferometer employs real-world couplers by introducing a small attenuation in one of the interferometer arms.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	8226-8239
Number of pages	14
Journal	Optics Express
Volume	31
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.476884
Publication status	Published - 27 Feb 2023

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Funding. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/R024057/1 (FPA-ROCS), EP/S003436/1 (PHOS), EP/S016171/1 (EEMC)); UK Research and Innovation (Future Leaders Fellowship MR/T041218/1).

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