Polarization multistability and instability in a nonlinear dispersive ring cavity

Year: 1994

Authors: Haelterman M., Trillo S., Wabnitz S.

Autors Affiliation: Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Via Baldassarre Castiglione 59, Rome, 00142, Italy; Service d’Optique Théorique et Appliquée, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50, Avenue F. D. Roosevelt, CP 194/5, Brussels, B-1050, Belgium

Abstract: We study the role of polarization in modulational instabilities in a synchronously pumped ring resonator that is filled with an isotropic nonlinear dispersive medium. To describe nonlinear propagation of the polarized field throughthe ring, we introduce two coupled driven and damped nonlinear Schrodinger equations. These equations, which result fromaveraging propagation and boundary conditions over each circulation through the ring, permit a simple stability analysis. This analysis predicts polarization multistability in the steady state as well as the emergence of stable pulse trains whose polarization state is either parallel or orthogonal to a linearly polarized synchronous pump beam. The analytical predictions are confirmed and extended by numerical simulations of polarized wave propagation in the cavity.

Journal/Review: JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS

Volume: 11 (3)      Pages from: 446  to: 456

KeyWords: Cavity resonators; Lasers; Light polarization; Quantum theory, Schroedinger equation, Nonlinear optics
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.11.000446

Citations: 49
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