Dynamic Eigenstates of Parametric Interactions in Randomly Birefringent Fibers

Author

Kogelnik, Herwig ; McKinstrie, C.J.

Author_Institution

Crawford Hill Lab., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

21

Issue

15

fYear

2009

Firstpage

1036

Lastpage

1038

Abstract

In fiber-based parametric devices employing nondegenerate four-wave mixing, there exist dynamic eigenstates for the signal and idler, for which there is no change of polarization as the waves propagate. For the case of parametric amplifiers with two pumps of arbitrary polarization, the eigenstates are the sum of the Stokes vectors of the pumps. For nonlinear Bragg scattering, the eigenstate polarizations are determined by the sum of two Stokes vectors of one pump plus one of the other pump. Separated coupled-wave solutions for the evolution of the signal and idler are obtained for each eigenstate.

Keywords

birefringence; eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; multiwave mixing; optical fibre polarisation; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; Stokes vector; arbitrary polarization; birefringent fiber; dynamic eigenstate; nonlinear Bragg scattering; parametric amplifier; parametric interaction; wave propagation; Four-wave mixing (FWM); nonlinear optics; parametric amplification; parametric frequency conversion;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2009.2022056

Filename

4912323