Fiber optical parametric polarizer

2013

In this work, a fiber-optical parametric polarizer (FOPP), i.e., a polarizing device based on parametric amplification in optical fibers is demonstrated. This was achieved for both the signal and idler waves with 25 dB gain over a broad bandwidth using the strong polarization-dependent gain (PDG) of parametric amplifiers. The experimental values of the degree of polarization (DOP) calculated from the Stokes parameters are indicated above each sphere. The gain spectra are also plotted with the parametric gain and the signal OSNR in insets. The Poincare sphere represents the three normalized Stokes parameters (S1,S2,S3) in unit radius. Results show that he DOP of the signal significantly incr…