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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Essiambre, R.
• Mestre, M. A.
• Ryf, R.
• Gnauck, A. H.
• Tkach, R. W.
• Chraplyvy, A. R.
• Yi Sun
• Xinli Jiang
• Lingle, R.

Titel

Experimental Investigation of Inter-Modal Four-Wave Mixing in Few-Mode Fibers

Ist Teil von

• IEEE photonics technology letters, 2013-03, Vol.25 (6), p.539-542

Ort / Verlag

IEEE

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Link zum Volltext

• Volltext

Quelle

IEEE Electronic Library (IEL)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We experimentally demonstrate nondegenerate four-wave mixing (FWM) between waves belonging to different spatial modes of a 5-km-long few-mode fiber (FMF). Of the three inter-modal FWM (IM-FWM) processes possible, two have been experimentally observed. These IM-FWM processes are found to be phase-matched over very large frequency separations of several Terahertz between the waves. In contrast to FWM in single-mode fibers that require operating near the zero-dispersion wavelength to achieve phase matching, IM-FWM in a FMF can be fully phase matched in the presence of large chromatic dispersion in each spatial mode.