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The evolution characteristics of the degenerate four-wave mixing (DFWM) effect in the proposed tellurite photonic crystal fiber (PCF) are investigated systematically. The influence of the pitch distance and diameter-to-pitch ratio on the phase-matching condition is analyzed numerically. The effects of fiber length, signal wavelength, idler wavelength, initial pump power and initial signal power on the signal gain and idler conversion efficiency are investigated. Based on the DFWM occurring in the proposed tellurite PCF, the signal (anti-Stokes) wave is efficiently amplified and the idler (Stokes) wave is efficiently generated at the mid-infrared (mid-IR) waveband with the pump wavelength of 1.553 μm. The signal gain can be increased by increasing the initial pump power. The idler conversion efficiency can reach ~ 26%. The simulated results will be instructive for the experimental FWM process to generate mid-IR optical parametric oscillators.
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01 March 2019
After publication of the paper, the authors realized that the signal gain in Fig. 6b, d, f was calculated using Gs = 10ln[Ps(L)/Ps(0)].
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grant Nos. 61875052, 11374084, 61307056 and 61475171). It was also supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) (15H02250 and 17K18891).
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Wang, P., Chen, L., Zhang, X. et al. Investigation on four-wave mixing toward mid-infrared waveband in tellurite photonic crystal fiber. Opt Quant Electron 50, 415 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-018-1680-0
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