Four-wave mixing in carbon nanotube-coated optical fiber gratings

Creator: 

  • Shao, Li-Yang
  • Jakubinek, Michael B.
  • Sun, Tingting
  • Simard, Benoit
  • Albert, Jacques

Date: 

2012-02-16

Abstract: 

The observation of four-wave mixing(FWM) in single-walled carbon nanotubes(SWCNTs) deposited around a tilted fiber Bragg grating (TFBG) has been demonstrated. A thin, floating SWCNTfilm is manually wrapped around the outer cladding of the fiber and FWM occurs between two core-guided laser signals by TFBG-induced interaction of the core mode and cladding modes. The effective nonlinear coefficient is calculated to be 1.8 × 103 W−1 Km−1. The wavelength of generated idlers is tunable with a range of 7.8 nm.

Publisher: 

AIP Publishing

Peer Review: 

Published in Peer Reviewed Journal

Faculty Name: 

Faculty of Engineering and Design

Department Name: 

Department of Electronics

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