Open AccessNovel phase-matching condition for a four wave mixing experiment in an optical fiber
Author(s) -
Sung Jae Jung,
J. Y. Lee,
D. Y. Kim
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/opex.14.000035
Subject(s) - optics , dispersion (optics) , dispersion shifted fiber , zero dispersion wavelength , four wave mixing , graded index fiber , optical fiber , materials science , mixing (physics) , wavelength , refractive index , polarization mode dispersion , photonic crystal fiber , polarization maintaining optical fiber , nonlinear optics , fiber optic sensor , physics , laser , quantum mechanics
A new phase-matching condition for a four-wave-mixing (FWM) experiment in an optical fiber is proposed to simultaneously measure the linear and nonlinear optical properties of an optical fiber such as dispersion-zero wavelength, dispersion slop, and nonlinear refractive index. Several different dispersion shifted fibers (DSFs) and nonzero dispersion shifted fibers (NZDSFs) were tested to demonstrate the validity of our proposed method. We have also shown that experimental results are in good agreement with those obtained using a conventional measurement method. We believe that technique is a very powerful and efficient tool for zero-dispersion and dispersion slop mapping for already installed optical fibers.