Pump-induced refractive index modulation and dispersions in Er3+-doped fibers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 732-738

  Thirstrup, Carsten ^a,b   Shi, Yuan ^a,c   Pálsdóttir, Bera ^d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c E TEK Dynamics Inc   (United States)

^d Lycom A/S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; FLUORESCENCE; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHASE MEASUREMENT; PHASE SHIFT; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; ERBIUM DOPED FIBERS; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER; OPTICAL TRANSITIONS; PUMP INDUCED MODULATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX MODULATION;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0030149253     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.495152     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. S. C. Fleming and T. J. Whitley, "Measurement of pump induced refractive index change in erbium doped fiber amplifier," Electron. Lett., vol. 27, pp. 1959-1961, 1991.
2. R. W Sadowski, M. J. F. Digonnet, R.H. Pantell, and H.J. Shaw, "Resonantly-enhanced nonlinear switching in rare earth doped fibers," in Proc. SPIE. Boston, MA, Sept. 1992.
3. P. L. Chu and B. Wu, "Optical switching in twin-core erbium-doped fibers," Opt. Lett., vol. 17, pp. 235-257, 1992.
4. Y. L. Xue, P. L. Chu, and Weiping Zhang, "Resonance-enhanced refractive index and its dynamics in rare-earth-doped fibers, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B. vol. 10, pp. 1840-1847, 1993.
5. R. H. Pantell, M. J. F. Digonnet, R. W. Sadowski, and H. J. Shaw, "Analysis of nonlinear optical switching in an erbium-doped fiber," J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 11, pp. 1416-1424, 1993.
6. M. J. F. Digonnet, R. W. Sadowski, D.T. Mayweather, H. J. Shaw, and R. H. Pantell, "Advances toward practical all-optical fiber switches," in Proc. Optic, Fiber Commun, '95 (OFC '95) San Diego, CA, Technical Digest, pp. 15-16.
7. 3+ cross section for stimulated emission with glass composition," J. Phys. D., vol. 5, pp. 1788-1799, 1972.
8. E. Desurvire, "Study of the complex atomic susceptibility of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers," J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 8, pp. 1517-1527, 1990.
9. F. Stern, "Dispersion of the index of refraction near the absorption edge of semiconductors," Phys. Rev., 133, pp. A1653-A1664, 1964.
10. A. Yariv, Optical Electronics, Saunders College Publishing, Fourth Ed., Orlando, FL. 1991.
11. G. I. Stegeman, E. M. Wright, N. Finlayson, R. Zanoni, and C. T. Seaton, "Third order nonlinear integrated optics," J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 6, pp. 953-970, 1988.
12. J. S. Weiner, D. A. B. Miller, and D. S. Chemla, "Quadratic electrooptic effect due to the quantum-confined Stark effect in quantum wells," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 50, pp. 842-844, 1987.
13. R. Wyatt, "Spectroscopy of rate earth doped fibers," in Proc. SPIE, 1171, pp. 54-64, 1989.
14. B. J. Ainslie, S. P. Craig-Ryan, S. T. Davey, J. R. Armitage, C. A. Atkins, and R. Wyatt, "Optical analysis of erbium doped fibers for efficient lasers and amplifiers," in Proc. IOOC, Kobe, Japan, 1989, 20A3-2.
15. N. Kagi, A. Oyobe, and K. Nakamura, "Efficient optical amplifier using a low- concentration erbium-doped fiber," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. vol. 2, pp. 559-561, 1990.
16. H. Masuda, A. Takada, and K. Aida, "Modeling the gain degradation of high concentration erbium-doped fiber amplifiers by introducing inhomogeneous cooperative up-conversion," J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 10, pp. 1789-1799, 1992.