Pump-degenerate phase-sensitive amplification in chalcogenide waveguides

Yanbing Zhang*, Jochen Schröder, Chad Husko, Simon Lefrancois, Duk Yong Choi, Steve Madden, Barry Luther-Davies, Benjamin J. Eggleton

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    Abstract

    We experimentally demonstrate phase-sensitive amplification based on pump-degenerate four-wave mixing in dispersion-engineered chalcogenide waveguides. We achieve a maximum extinction ratio of 18 dB with a pump peak power of 6.7 W. The variation of the gain as a function of relative phase, pump power, and bandwidth is theoretically analyzed and experimentally studied. Additionally, an analytical formula relating the phase-transfer curve to the experimental gain curve is derived. Numerical calculations show strong agreement with the experimental results.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)780-787
    Number of pages8
    JournalJournal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics
    Volume31
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Apr 2014

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