Intra-cavity frequency shifted laser pumps for non-degenerate and partially coherent Bragg-Scattering FWM in nonlinear fiber

Year: 2011

Authors: Krupa K., Bettenzana M., Tonello A., Modotto D., Manili G., Couderc V., Di Bin P., Wabnitz S., Barthélémy A.

Autors Affiliation: Université de Limoges, XLIM, UMR C.N.R.S. 6172, 123 Av. A. Thomas, Limoges 87060, France; Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell\’Informazione, Università di Brescia, via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy

Abstract: Nonlinear effects in fibers with partially coherent pumps have attracted a great interest in view of their potential for polarization insensitive wavelength conversion and the increased resilience to Stimulated Brillouin Scattering [1]. In this work we experimentally study the problem of non-degenerate four-wave-mixing (FWM) by using a pair of partially coherent pumps, and focus our attention on a specific type of FWM, which is generally called \”Bragg-Scattering\” (BS-FWM). This kind of FWM has attracted a renewed interest because of its intrinsically low-noise nature which makes it potentially applicable for light-by-light manipulation even for very faint signals such as quantum keys [2].

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KeyWords: Intracavities; Laser pumps; Low noise; Non-linear fiber; Nonlinear effects in fibers; Partially coherent; Polarization-insensitive; Quantum key, Electron optics; Four wave mixing; Light; Optics; Pumping (laser); Quantum electronics, Coherent scattering
DOI: 10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5942984