Advance Program:
Conference Information:
Research and development of fiber OPAs started about 25 years ago, and has been increasing over the past decade. A number of important milestones have been achieved, including: 70 dB CW gain; 3.7 dB noise figure for phase-insensitive amplification (and below 3 dB for phase-sensitive amplification); over 100 nm bandwidth with flat gain, or net gain in excess of 10 dB over 400 nm; narrowband amplification tunable over 200 nm; tunable parametric oscillation; polarization-independent operation. The nearly instantaneous response of the gain to pump modulation has been exploited for the several optical processing operations. In addition fiber OPAs can be used for efficient generation of correlated photon pairs.
These features offer prospects for application in a number of areas, including: broadband amplification in arbitrary wavelength ranges; low-noise amplification; signal regeneration; high-speed optical sampling; tunable optical delay lines; quantum communication; high-power wavelength conversion; new tunable sources; etc.
This meeting will bring together researchers involved in most aspects of fiber OPA work, who will present the state-of-the-art in their areas of expertise. The meeting will serve as a forum for discussion of research direction for the field, and the feasibility of various commercial applications. As such it will be an excellent meeting to attend for scientists and engineers involved in the field, or interested in learning about future trends in this active area of research and development.
Contributed papers are solicited on all aspects of fiber OPAs, modulation instability (MI), and closely related topics. These include but are not limited to: theory; demonstrations; applications to optical communications; high-power devices; short-pulse devices; quantum properties and applications; visible devices; novel fibers for OPAs; suppression of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS); distributed amplification; phase-sensitive amplification; parametric amplification in Si waveguides and in microspheres; commercial applications.
