Polarization Evolution in Dispersion Compensation Modules

Reimer, Michael E.; Dumas, Derek C. S.; Soliman, George; Yevick, David; O’Sullivan, Maurice

doi:10.1364/ofc.2009.owd4

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“…Indeed, it is well known that the output SOP of a signal from an optical fiber link exhibits random time fluctuations due to environmental, temperature, or mechanical variations, so that relatively fast SOP rotation speeds on the Poincaré sphere are observed [1]. Whenever optical signals from a telecommunication link are used in combination with polarization-sensitive components such as coherent receivers, optical switches, polarization demultiplexers, or sensors, it is thus necessary to stabilize the SOP at the fiber output.…”

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Nonlinear polarizers based on four-wave mixing in high-birefringence optical fibers

Guasoni

Wabnitz

2012

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B

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Parametric amplification or four-wave mixing in high-birefringence optical fibers may be exploited to implement a novel type of nonlinear polarizer. Such a device leads to the simultaneous amplification, frequency conversion, and repolarization of both signal and idler waves along one of the principal birefringence axes of the fiber, independently of the pump, signal, and idler input state of polarization, power, and frequency detuning. We discuss the conditions for the observation of polarization attraction in fiber optics parametric amplifiers operating with a pump in either the normal or the anomalous dispersion regime.

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