Fast polarization scramblers based on forward and backward nonlinear interactions in optical fibers

Year: 2014

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

Autors Affiliation: Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, UMR6303 CNRS-UB, Dijon, France; Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell\’Informazione, Università di Brescia, via Branze 38, Brescia 25123, Italy

Abstract: We analyze two all-optical fiber-based fast polarization scramblers. In the first, a signal beam nonlinearly interacts with a co-propagating incoherent pump, whose fast temporal fluctuations induce an effective depolarization of the signal. In the second, the signal interacts with its backward replica generated and amplified by a reflective loop. Beyond an amplification threshold, the signal output polarization exhibits chaotic dynamics.

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More Information: This research was funded by the European Research Council under Grant Agreement 306633, ERC PETAL.
KeyWords: Optical fibers; Polarization; Signal processing; Transparent optical networks, All-optical signal processing; Chaotic dynamics; Forward-and-backward; Nonlinear effect; Nonlinear interactions; Polarization control; Polarization scrambler; Temporal fluctuation, Optical fiber communication
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON.2014.6876700