A universal all-fiber Omnipolarizer

Year: 2014

Authors: Bony P.-Y., Guasoni M., Pitois S., Morin P., Sugny D., Picozzi A., Jauslin H.R., Millot G., Wabnitz S., Fatome J.

Autors Affiliation: Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne (ICB), UMR 6303 CNRS – Université de Bourgogne, 9 Av. Alain Savary, BP 47870, Dijon, 21078, France; Department of Information Engineering, Università di Brescia, Via Branze 38, Brescia, 25123, Italy

Abstract: We report the experimental observation of self-polarization of light in optical fibers through a counter-propagating four-wave mixing between an incident signal and its backward replica. An efficient self-polarization of a 40-Gbit/s signal is demonstrated.

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KeyWords: Optical fibers; Photonics; Polarization, 40-Gbit/s; All fiber; Counterpropagating; Incident signals; Self polarization, Four wave mixing
DOI: 10.1109/IPCon.2014.6995459