Four-wave mixing in fibers with randomly varying zero-dispersion wavelength
- 1 August 1998
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of the Optical Society of America B
- Vol. 15 (8) , 2269-2275
- https://doi.org/10.1364/josab.15.002269
Abstract
The effect of random fluctuations in the zero-dispersion wavelength is considered for fiber four-wave mixing. Theoretical expressions for average parametric gain, phase-conjugation conversion efficiency, and gain bandwidth are obtained and found to be in good agreement with experiments. Possible limitations on the noise figure in phase-sensitive amplifiers based on fiber four-wave mixing are also discussed.Keywords
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