Open AccessPolarization switch of four-wave mixing in a tunable fiber optical parametric oscillator
Author(s) -
Kangwen Yang,
Pengbo Ye,
Shikai Zheng,
Jieshi Jiang,
Kun Huang,
Qiang Hao
Publication year - 2018
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.26.002995
Subject(s) - optics , four wave mixing , raman scattering , fiber laser , optical parametric oscillator , polarization (electrochemistry) , nonlinear optics , materials science , brillouin scattering , parametric statistics , laser , phase modulation , optical parametric amplifier , cross phase modulation , wavelength , parametric oscillator , raman spectroscopy , physics , optical amplifier , phase noise , chemistry , statistics , mathematics
We reported the simultaneous generation and selective manipulation of scalar and cross-phase modulation instabilities in a fiber optical parametric oscillator. Numerical and experimental results show independent control of parametric gain by changing the input pump polarization state. The resonant cavity enables power enhancement of 45 dB for the spontaneous sidebands, generating laser pulses tunable from 783 to 791 nm and 896 to 1005 nm due to the combination of four-wave mixing, cascaded Raman scattering and other nonlinear effects. This gain controlled, wavelength tunable, fiber-based laser source may find applications in the fields of nonlinear biomedical imaging and stimulated Raman spectroscopy.