Optical Parametric Amplifiers
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 December 2020) | Viewed by 405
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nonlinear optical effects in fibers including solitons; optical switching and parametric amplification; ultra high-speed and long distance optical communications and all-optical networks
Interests: spatial-division multiplexing; fiber nonlinearity compensation; fiber optical parametric amplifiers; optical fiber modelling; few-mode fibers design
Interests: fiber optical communications; fiber optical parametric amplifiers; phase sensitive amplifiers; Raman amplification; optical phase conjugation; multi-band optical networks
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The optical parametric amplifier (OPA) has been investigated by many research groups as a potential "holy grail" of optical processing and amplification, allowing for unparalleled ultra-wideband, ultra-low-noise and wavelength unbounded operation. Outstanding research progress has been made towards the demonstration of ultra-fast all-optical signal processing applications such as phase conjugation, phase/amplitude regeneration and mode/wavelength conversion. These are exciting times for the OPA research community, as the commercial availability of nonlinear optical parametric devices is expanding.
The present Special Issue is dedicated to recent advances in OPA over any nonlinear gain mediums, including optical amplification, processing and generation. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas:
- χ(2)- and χ(3)-based amplifiers/conjugators/translators;
- Phase sensitive amplifiers;
- Multimode/multicore nonlinear optical parametric devices;
- Optical signal processing and regeneration;
- Optical parametric oscillators;
- New nonlinear gain mediums for nonlinear optical parametric processes.
Prof. Nick Doran
Dr. Filipe Ferreira
Dr. Vladimir Gordienko
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Optical parametric amplifiers
- Fiber optical parametric amplifiers
- Phase-sensitive amplifiers
- Optical phase conjugation
- Wavelength conversion
- Optical signal regeneration
- Optical parametric oscillators
