Observation of induced modulational polarization instabilities and pulse-train generation in the normal-dispersion regime of a birefringent optical fiber

Year: 1998

Authors: Millot G., Seve E., Wabnitz S., Haelterman M.

Autors Affiliation: Laboratoire de Physique, Université de Bourgogne, Avenue A. Savory, 21011 Dijon, France; Service d\’Optique et Acoustique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50, Avenue Roosevelt, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium

Abstract: Four-photon mixing in a low-birefringence fiber is strongly influenced by the orientation of the pump and signal waves with respect to the fiber axes. We experimentally investigated the dependence of the modulational gain spectra on pump power and polarization by mixing orthogonal pump and probe light beams in a birefringent optical fiber. With a pump on the fast fiber axis, a cascade of sidebands was generated in the regime of normal fiber dispersion. These sidebands are shown to correspond to 0.2-0.3-THz trains of pulses with complex polarization profiles. The analysis reveals that, at particular values of the input pump and probe powers and signal frequency detuning, trains of dark-solitonlike pulses can be generated on the axis orthogonal to the pump.

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

Volume: 15 (4)      Pages from: 1266  to: 1277

KeyWords: Cross-phase modulation; White vector solitions
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.15.001266

Citations: 49
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