Inverse four-wave mixing and self-parametric amplification in optical fibre

Abstract

An important group of nonlinear processes in optical fibre involve the mixing of four waves due to the intensity dependence of the refractive index. It is customary to distinguish between nonlinear effects that require external/pumping waves (cross-phase modulation and parametric processes such as four-wave mixing) and those arising from self-action of the propagating optical field (self-phase modulation and modulation instability). Here, we present a new nonlinear self-action effect—self-parametric amplification—which manifests itself as optical spectrum narrowing in normal dispersion fibre, leading to very stable propagation with a distinctive spectral distribution. The narrowing results from inverse four-wave mixing, resembling an effective parametric amplification of the central part of the spectrum by energy transfer from the spectral tails. Self-parametric amplification and the observed stable nonlinear spectral propagation with a random temporal waveform can find applications in optical communications and high-power fibre lasers with nonlinear intracavity dynamics.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2015.150
Divisions: College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aston Institute of Photonics Technology (AIPT)
College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Systems analytics research institute (SARI)
Additional Information: Funding: European Research Council project ULTRALASER (267763); Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (14.B25.31.0003 and 14.578.21.0029); and the Russian Science Foundation (14-21-00110). Supplementary information availalbe online.
Uncontrolled Keywords: Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Publication ISSN: 1749-4885
Last Modified: 22 Nov 2024 08:07
Date Deposited: 02 Sep 2015 13:40
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2015-08-10
Authors: Turitsyn, Sergei K. (ORCID Profile 0000-0003-0101-3834)
Bednyakova, Anastasia E.
Fedoruk, Mikhail P.
Papernyi, Serguei B.
Clements, Wallace R.L.

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