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Even harmonic pulse train generation by cross-polarization-modulation seeded instability in optical fibers

Guy MillotStefan WabnitzStefano TrilloStéphane PitoisJulien FatomeIbrahim El-mansouriJean-luc Blanchet

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optical fibersPhysics::Optics01 natural sciences010309 opticsOptics0103 physical sciencesPulse waveoptics; modulation; optical fibers; pulse-train010306 general physicsPhysics[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-OPTICS]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Optics [physics.optics][ PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-OPTICS ] Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Optics [physics.optics]Extinction ratiobusiness.industrynonlinear opticsNonlinear opticsStatistical and Nonlinear PhysicsAtomic and Molecular Physics and Opticsopticsmodulationpulse train generationCross-polarized wave generationPulse compressionHarmonicspulse-trainHarmonic analysis; modulation; optical fibersbusinessFrequency modulationUltrashort pulse

description

International audience; We show that, by properly adjusting the relative state of polarization of the pump and of a weak modulation, with a frequency such that at least one of its even harmonics falls within the band of modulation instability, one obtains a fully modulated wave at the second or higher even harmonic of the initial modulation. An application of this principle to the generation of a 80-GHz optical pulse train with high extinction ratio from a 40-GHz weakly modulated pump is experimentally demonstrated using a nonzero dispersion shifted fiber in the telecom C band.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2012-12-12
10.1364/josab.30.000099http://hdl.handle.net/11392/1766698