Polarization dependence of modal attraction in high birefringence bimodal optical fibers

Year: 2014

Authors: Guasoni M., Wabnitz S.

Autors Affiliation: Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, UMR 6303 CNRS, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon 21078, France; Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell\’Informazione, University of Brescia, Brescia 25123, Italy

Abstract: We study nonlinear mode coupling among two intense and copropagating beams of different wavelength in bimodal and high birefringence optical fibers. With the proper design of the bimodal fiber, we show that this process may lead to modal attraction, where the modal distribution of light at a pump wavelength is replicated at the signal wavelength, independently of the input mode excitation conditions of the signal. We analyse the dependence of the efficiency of the modal attraction process upon the input state of polarization of both the signal and the pump beams.

Journal/Review: JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY

Volume: 32 (6)      Pages from: 1213  to: 1220

More Information: This work was supported by the European Research Council under Grant 306633, ERC PETAL, and by Fondazione Cariplo, under Grant n.2011-0395.
KeyWords: Fiber nonlinear optics; Multiwave mixing; Stokes parameters
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2014.2299755

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