Impact of Pump Quality on the Performances of Fiber Optical Parametric Amplifiers

Thibaut Sylvestre (1) , Arnaud Mussot (2) , Eric Lantz (1) , Hervé Maillotte (1)

1 FEMTO-ST - Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique, Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies (UMR 6174)
2 PhLAM - Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules - UMR 8523

The principle of operation of fibre optical parametric amplifiers is revisited with a special attention to the pump wave characteristics ranging from the monochromatic coherent case to the incoherent one.

Domaines: Optique / photonique

Thibaut Sylvestre, Arnaud Mussot, Eric Lantz, Hervé Maillotte. Impact of Pump Quality on the Performances of Fiber Optical Parametric Amplifiers. Nonlinear Photonics IEEE LEOS Winter Topical meeting, Jan 2008, Sorrento, Italy. pp.49-50. ⟨hal-00392495⟩