Experimental observation of tunable wavelength down- and up-conversions of ultra-short pulses in a periodically poled LiNbO3 waveguide |
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Authors: | Jian Wang Xinliang Zhang Xiuhua Yuan Dexiu Huang |
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Institution: | Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronic, Institute of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China |
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Abstract: | All-optical tunable wavelength conversion of ps-pulses is proposed and experimentally demonstrated by use of cascaded sum- and difference frequency generation (cSFG/DFG) in a periodically poled LiNbO3 (PPLN) waveguide. The amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise is effectively suppressed by employing two tunable filters. As a result, tunable wavelength down- and up-conversions are simultaneously observed. The temporal evolutions of the signal, pump, control and idler waves propagating along the PPLN waveguide are simulated. From the temporal waveforms and optical spectra in the simulations, it is interesting to find that continuous wave (CW) pump and control are evolved into optical pulses during the cSFG/DFG nonlinear interactions. Moreover, some new sidebands in the output pump spectrum are observed both in the simulations and experiments. |
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Keywords: | 42 65 k 42 79 N |
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