Staas & Halsey LLP
Tunable wavelength four light wave mixer
A tunable wavelength four light wave mixer using at least a dispersion-shifted optical fiber and having a larger freedom in the wavelength of the converted light is disclosed. The mixer comprises at least a dispersion-shifted optical fiber supplied with signal light of wavelength &lgr;s from an input optical fiber 14 and with pump light of wavelength &lgr;p from a pump light source 12 through a wave multiplexing unit 15. The dispersion-shifted optical fiber is configured with a plurality of sequentially connected dispersion-shifted optical fibers 11-1, 11-2 of different zero dispersion wavelengths &lgr;01, &lgr;02. The pump light source 12 outputs the pump light of the same wavelength &lgr;p1 or &lgr;p2 as one of a plurality of different zero dispersion wavelengths &lgr;01, &lgr;02. The converted light of wavelength &lgr;c(=&lgr;c1 or &lgr;c2) is output from an optical bandpass filter (BPF) 13. 
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Shinichi Shigeki
Takeda Watanabe