Efficient four-wave mixing in an ultra-highly nonlinear suspended-core chalcogenide As38Se62 fiber
Résumé
We report a chalcogenide suspended-core fiber with ultra-high nonlinearity and low attenuation loss. The glass composition is As38Se62.With a core diameter as small as 1.13 µm, a record Kerr nonlinearity of 46 000 W-1km-1 is demonstrated with attenuation loss of 0.9 dB/m. Four-wave mixing is experimented by using a 1m-long chalcogenide fiber for 10 GHz and 42.7 GHz signals. Four-wave mixing efficiencies of -5.6 dB at 10 GHz and -17.5 dB at 42.7 GHz are obtained. We also observed higher orders of four-wave mixing for both repetition rates.