Novel Parametric Light Generator and Monochromator

Technology Description

Developed here is a fiber optical parametric amplifier to realize a wide-range tunable, high-sweep rate, frequency-swept light source. The invention provides for the following:

• Generation of fast, wide-band, wavelength swept light.
• Analysis of spectral content in arbitrary wavelength bands.
• Amplification and frequency conversion of selected spectral slices in a wideband optical signal.

Applications

Applications for the above work can be found in:

• Frequency swept-light sources and spectral analyzers
• Optical add-drop multiplexers
• Fast tunable spectral discriminators
• Frequency controlled optical switches

Intellectual Property Info

This work is fully prototyped and available to license worldwide.

Patent Status