Sigang Yang
Tsinghua University, China
Title: Optical parametric generation in photonic crystal fibers
Biography
Biography: Sigang Yang
Abstract
Light sources operating in the non-conventional wavelength band in which traditional lasers cannot oscillate have attracted great attention recently, since the applications of lasers are extending increasingly into new fields, such as biomedical imaging, spectroscopy and so on. Optical parametric generation in optical fibers refers to a phenomenon where weak spontaneous emission is amplified by the pump wave based on the effect of degenerate four-wave mixing (FWM). It can provide tunable radiation in non-conventional wavelength bands with the advantages of flexibility, low cost and compactness. The gain from parametric process depends on the phase matching condition among the pump, signal and idlers. And the dispersion profile of the gain fiber play a critical role in the phase matching mechanism. Photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) can provide more freedoms to customize its dispersion and nonlinearity, compared with the traditional fibers with doping technology. Especially its zero dispersion wavelengths can be located in nearly any wavelength and it has very large nonlinear coefficient. Thus, the parametric process in PCFs can provide gain in nearly any wavelength band according to the pump wavelength and the dispersion of PCF. Firstly, parametric wavelength conversion with very large span between visible and infrared band is demonstrated based on our homemade PCFs with two zero dispersion wavelengths. The theoretical design guideline is also introduced. Secondly, optical parametric amplifiers and oscillators based on PCFs pumped with 1060 nm band laser pulse are introduced in details. These works show that the optical parametric generation in PCFs is promising to provide light radiation in non-conventional wavelength bands.