Measurement of the nonlinear refractive index of tellurite glass fiber by using induced grating autocorrelation technique

Nonlinear phenomena in optical fibers have been attracting considerable attention because of the rapid growth of the fiber optics communication industry. The increasing demand in internet use and the expansion of telecommunications in the developing world have triggered the need for high capacity and ultra-fast communication devices and also the need to increase the number of transmission channels in the fibers. Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) and Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) systems are capable of transmitting large volumes of data at very high rates into huge numbers of optical transmission channels. This ability is limited by the gain bandwidth of Silica based fiber optics amplifiers already installed in the communication networks. Tellurite based fiber amplifiers offer the necessary bandwidth for amplification of WDM and DWDM channels.;To investigate the nonlinear properties of the optical fibers in this research, we used a 10 picoseconds pulse width passively mode-locked Nd:Vanadate ( Nd:YVO4) laser operating at 1342nm with a repetition rate of 76 MHz. We accurately measured the nonlinear refractive index of single mode silica fibers utilizing the Induced Grating Autocorrelation (IGA) technique. IGA technique was extended furthermore to study nonlinear effects in multimode fibers, and for the first time, we successfully measured the nonlinear refractive index (n2) of a multimode silica fiber.;Confident of the ability of IGA technique for determining n 2 of multimode silica fibers, we measured the nonlinear refractive index of multimode Tellurite glass fibers with length as short as 0.5 meter.;The goal of this work is to provide accurate and reliable information on the nonlinear optical properties of Tellurite glass fibers, novel fibers with promising future for developing ultrafast and high transmission capacity communication devices.