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Observation of induced modulational polarization instabilities and pulse-train generation in the normal-dispersion regime of a birefringent optical fiber
Guy MillotMarc HaeltermanE. SeveStefan Wabnitzsubject
PhysicsMode volumeOptical fiberbusiness.industrySingle-mode optical fiberPhysics::OpticsStatistical and Nonlinear PhysicsPolarization-maintaining optical fiberGraded-index fiberAtomic and Molecular Physics and Opticslaw.inventionDouble-clad fiberOpticslawDispersion-shifted fiberbusinessSelf-phase modulationdescription
Four-photon mixing in a low-birefringence fiber is strongly influenced by the orientation of the pump and signal waves with respect to the fiber axes. We experimentally investigated the dependence of the modulational gain spectra on pump power and polarization by mixing orthogonal pump and probe light beams in a birefringent optical fiber. With a pump on the fast fiber axis, a cascade of sidebands was generated in the regime of normal fiber dispersion. These sidebands are shown to correspond to 0.2–0.3-THz trains of pulses with complex polarization profiles. The analysis reveals that, at particular values of the input pump and probe powers and signal frequency detuning, trains of dark-solitonlike pulses can be generated on the axis orthogonal to the pump.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998-04-01 | Journal of the Optical Society of America B |