DESIGN OF ULTRA-HIGH GAIN OPTICAL MICRO-AMPLIFIERS VIA SMART NON-LINEAR WAVE MIXING

Abstract

Optical amplification of the input wave by mixing the pump wave within a nonlinear interaction medium offers high gain for a variety of applications. In real life studies, the interaction mediums which allow the optical amplification of the input wave have many resonance frequencies. However, the computational expense for tuning the pump frequency to yield the optical amplification of the input wave increases with the number of resonance frequencies within the interaction mediums. Here, we present a Fletcher-Reeves based algorithm for parametric amplification in micro-resonators having multiple resonance frequencies. Using our novel mathematical formulations, we obtained a gain of 4.7x107 for the input wave at 640 THz and a gain of 1.5x108 for the input wave at 100 THz within the micro-resonators. Moreover, the performance of our algorithm is verified by the well know mathematical expression, and we achieved more than 99% accuracy in computation of optical amplification. To our knowledge, this is the first study where Fletcher-Reeves algorithm is used for the parametric amplification. Our methodology can be accompanied to design optical parametric amplifiers for applications of high-speed optical communications, photonic circuits, and ultrafast lasers.