Broadband-cascaded four-wave mixing in a photonic crystal fiber around 1 μm

• DOI: 10.1007/s00340-012-5301-5
• Publication Date: 2013-01-03T06:54:39Z
• Authors: Hakan Sayinc; Mateusz Wysmolek; Jose M. Chavez Bo...; Roger Haynes; Martin M. Roth; Uwe Morgner; Jörg Neumann; Dietmar Kracht
• Keywords: 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology

To our knowledge, efficient generation of broadband four-wave mixing cascades centered at 1 μm and spanning 600 nm is experimentally demonstrated for the first time. This frequency comb is generated from a two-tone seed with a maximum peak power of 25 W in a low-dispersion photonic crystal fiber. It consists of up to 44 new idler waves generated symmetrically around the seed.