Open AccessEffect of dispersion fluctuations on widely tunable optical parametric amplification in photonic crystal fibers
Author(s) -
Jingsheng Chen,
Stuart G. Murdoch,
R. Leonhardt,
J.D. Harvey
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.14.009491
Subject(s) - photonic crystal fiber , dispersion (optics) , optics , parametric statistics , photonic crystal , materials science , optical fiber , polarization mode dispersion , fiber , physics , mathematics , composite material , statistics
The effect of dispersion fluctuations on the conversion efficiency of large frequency shift parametric sidebands is studied by numerical simulation and experiment. Numerical results based on periodic and random dispersion models are used to fit the experimental results. The fitting parameters provide a measure of the uniformity of the photonic crystal fiber used in the experiment. This allows us to place limits on the required uniformity of a photonic crystal fiber for strong frequency conversion.