Technical Papers and Presentations

There has been a growing interest in optical parametric amplifiers (OPA) for light generation and amplification in because of the possibility for arbitrary operation wavelength and wideband tenability [1]. PCFs are of particular interest in such nonlinear optics applications because of the enhanced light confinement and the resultant high nonlinearity (γ) achievable with air-cladded designs. Additionally, the geometric parameters of PCFs provide multiple degrees of freedom for dispersion engineering. In turn, a tunable dispersion profile enables phase-matching in arbitrary wavelength regimes to take advantage of interesting nonlinear effects, such as four-wave mixing (FWM).