All-optical 1.5 μm to 1.3 μm wavelength conversion in a walk-off compensating nonlinear optical loop mirror
- 1 May 1995
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
- Vol. 7 (5) , 497-499
- https://doi.org/10.1109/68.384522
Abstract
We demonstrate highly efficient all-optical conversion from 1.5 /spl mu/m to 1.3 /spl mu/m using a novel nonlinear optical loop mirror that compensates for walk-off. We make the fiber loop by splicing alternating segments of standard single-mode and dispersion-shifted fibers and choose their lengths such that the walk-off of the 1.3 /spl mu/m and 1.5 /spl mu/m pulses in one segment is completely reversed in the adjacent segment. We also show that the width of the converted pulses can be tailored by this scheme.Keywords
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