Pedestal suppression of ultrashort pulses by using a birefringent nonlinear polarization rotation mirror

A new scheme for a birefringent nonlinear polarization rotation mirror is proposed for pedestal suppression of ultrashort pulses. Environmentally stable and precisely controllable operation is demonstrated. The main pulse and pedestal components are separated and picked out from the different ports. By use of the soliton effect and nonlinear polarization rotation, almost transform-limited pedestal-free 318 and 143 fs ultrashort pulses with peak powers of 0.9 and 1.7 kW are successfully generated. The maximum pedestal-suppression ratio is 24 dB, and the pick-out efficiency is up to 46% including coupling loss. The characteristics are analyzed both experimentally and numerically.     

保偏光纤双折射主轴的旋转对消光比的影响

本文利用无穷切片模型和Jones矩阵理论,给出了主轴连续旋转的保偏光纤的等效矩阵,并讨论了主轴旋转对消光比的影响.     

J-dependence of intensity-dependent polarization change

J-dependence of intensity-dependent polarization change of the elliptically polarized light in atomic resonance lines is studied both theoretically and experimentally.     

超短光脉冲在双折射光子晶体光纤中产生超连续谱的偏振特性数值分析

采用矢量耦合非线性薛定谔方程描述了超短光脉冲在双折射光子晶体光纤中的传输过程,并利用分步傅里叶方法求解该方程。数值模拟了中心波长为1550nm的超短光脉冲在不同色散参量的双折射光子晶体光纤中超连续谱的产生及其偏振特性。分析了光纤在不同色散区时,高阶色散和非线性效应对超连续谱及其偏振态的影响。结果表明,当超短光脉冲波长位于近光纤零色散点的反常色散区时,比其在光纤正常色散区和远离光纤零色散点的反常色散区更容易产生宽且平坦的超连续谱,所得到的光谱显示出了复杂的偏振态特性。     

Quasi-linear pulses in birefringent fibers

The evolution of quasi-linear optical pulses in birefringent fibers, with strong dispersion-management, is studied analytically. The nonlinear terms of the Gabitov–Turitsyn equations (GTE) are analyzed asymptotically. The total spectral intensity, for a lossless system, is found to be an invariant of propagation, while for a lossy system it is dependent on the relative position of the amplifier in the dispersion map.OCIS Codes. 060.2330; 060.4370; 060.5530; 190.4370; 260.2030     

Nonlinear resonant polarization rotation under conditions of coherent population trapping

Nonlinear resonant optical rotation was studied over a wide range of experimental parameters at the Rb D ₁ F = 2→F′ = 1 transition in the ⁸⁷Rb vapor under conditions of coherent population trapping. The angle of rotation was found to depend nonmonotonically on the laser intensity and applied magnetic field. The effect of optical pumping out to the level F = 1 is discussed. It is demonstrated experimentally that the Faraday rotation angle increases twofold upon the compensation for pumping.     

Quasi-phase-matched modulation instability in birefringent fibers

The phase-sensitive nature of polarization modulation instability has been demonstrated in optical fibers whose birefringence has been manipulated to generate phase mismatches. Quasi-phase-matched modulation instability has been demonstrated, and the gain of the quasi-phase-matched sidebands has been investigated. The results are in good agreement with experiment.     

Nonlinear repolarization in optical fibers: polarization attraction with copropagating beams

We propose a type of lossless nonlinear polarizer, novel to our knowledge, a device that transforms any input state of polarization (SOP) of a signal beam into one and the same well-defined SOP toward the output, and perform this without any polarization-dependent losses. At the polarizer output end, the signal SOP appears to be locked to the input pump SOP. The polarizer is based on the nonlinear Kerr interaction of copropagating signal and pump beams in a telecom or randomly birefringent optical fiber.     

Second harmonic generation in birefringent optical fibers

Second harmonic generation in optical fibers is investigated. A scheme to combine material, modal and geometrical dispersion to achieve phase matching is proposed. Conversion efficiency, as a function of the fiber's parameters and the incoming electric field strength, is computed.     

Phase-matched four-photon mixing processes in birefringent fibers

We describe several new phase-matching processes for four-photon mixing in polarization-preserving birefringent fibers. The frequency shifts and polarization conditions of the waves involved in this nonlinear interaction are specified for a single-mode fused silica birefringent fiber. Our calculations include the effect of dispersion in the birefringence of the fibers.     

Small-stokes-shift frequency conversion in single-mode birefringent fibers

We report experimental observation of nondegenerate four-photon mixing (FPM) via a new phase-matched process in birefringent fibers. This phase-matching process is characterized by relatively long coherence lengths, and by small pump-to-Stokes frequency shifts (of the order of 100 cm^-1 in high birefringence fibers) that are directly proportional to the fiber birefringence. Pump-to-Stokes energy conversion efficiencies of over 40 percent have been obtained with moderate pump powers (≈1 kW) from a visible cw mode-locked dye laser coupled into single-mode polarization-preserving high-birefringence fibers of a few meters length. In addition, we report the first observation of a totally non-degenerate phase-matched four-photon process in a fiber; this invokes mixing of the original FPM Stokes component with the pump and stimulated Raman radiation.     

Picosecond pulse contrast enhancement by use of polarization rotation in crystals with the second-order nonlinearity

We report on the implementation of intensity-dependent filter for picosecond pulse temporal cleaning based on an effect of pulse polarization rotation during the unbalanced phase matched second harmonic generation. The pulse contrast enhancement by more than two orders of magnitude and filter transmission of ∼25% has been demonstrated at pulse intensities of <1 GW/cm². A simple and reliable all-solid-state filter scheme was integrated in a two-stage picosecond Nd:YAG regenerative amplifier seeded with pJ-energy femtosecond pulses of the Yb:KGW oscillator, and allowed us to reduce the ASE intensity level down to 1.5×10⁻⁸ with reference to the intensity of main 100 ps and 100 μJ pulse.     

Dynamics of polarization buildup by spin filtering

There has been much recent research into polarizing an antiproton beam, instigated by the recent proposal from the PAX (Polarized Antiproton eXperiment) project at GSI Darmstadt. It plans to polarize an antiproton beam by repeated interaction with a polarized internal target in a storage ring. The method of polarization by spin filtering requires many of the beam particles to remain within the ring after scattering off the polarized internal target via electromagnetic and hadronic interactions. We present and solve sets of differential equations which describe the buildup of polarization by spin filtering in many different scenarios of interest to projects planning to produce high-intensity polarized beams. These scenarios are: 1) spin filtering of a fully stored beam; 2) spin filtering while the beam is being accumulated, i.e. unpolarized particles are continuously being fed into the beam; 3) the particle input rate is equal to the rate at which particles are being lost due to scattering beyond the ring acceptance angle, the beam intensity remaining constant; 4) increasing the initial polarization of a stored beam by spin filtering; 5) the input of particles into the beam is stopped after a certain amount of time, but spin filtering continues. The rate of depolarization of a stored polarized beam on passing through an electron cooler is also shown to be negligible.     

Non-linear polarization and chiral effects in birefringent solitons

Novel effects resulting from joint action of chirality and non-linearity are discussed using a basic equation describing the temporal evolution of fields in a chiral medium with Kerr non-linearity. The spatial chirality effect is characterized through the Born-Fedorov formalism. Our simulations are based on the split-step Fourier method and the solution of the Stokes parameters. The numerical results show the chiral effect on solitons with circular polarization and mixed polarization spatial solitons.     

Modulation instabilities in randomly birefringent two-mode optical fibers

Modulation instabilities in the randomly birefringent two-mode optical fibers(RB-TMFs) are analyzed in detail by accounting the effects of the differential mode group delay(DMGD) and group velocity dispersion(GVD) ratio between the two modes, both of which are absent in the randomly birefringent single-mode optical fibers(RB-SMFs). New MI characteristics are found in both normal and anomalous dispersion regimes. For the normal dispersion, without DMGD,no MI exists. With DMGD, a completely new MI band is generated as long as the total power is smaller than a critical total power value, named by Pcr, which increases significantly with the increment of DMGD, and reduces dramatically as GVD ratio and power ratio between the two modes increases. For the anomalous dispersion, there is one MI band without DMGD. In the presence of DMGD, the MI gain is reduced generally. On the other hand, there also exists a critical total power(Pcr), which increases(decreases) distinctly with the increment of DMGD(GVD ratio of the two modes) but varies complicatedly with the power ratio between the two modes. Two MI bands are present for total power smaller than Pcr, and the dominant band can be switched between the low and high frequency bands by adjusting the power ratio between the two modes. The MI analysis in this paper is verified by numerical simulation.     

Optical solitons in birefringent fibers with spatio-temporal dispersion

This paper studies the propagation of solitons through birefringent fibers in the presence of spatio-temporal dispersion. Both Kerr and parabolic laws of nonlinearity are addressed. The exact 1-soliton solutions are obtained. There are several constraint conditions that ensure soliton solutions are derived. Three types of solitons are obtained: bright, dark and singular solitons.     

All-optical wavelength conversion based on nonlinear polarization rotation (NPR) in SOA and AWG filtering

An all-optical wavelength converter, based on nonlinear polarization rotation (NPR) in semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) and array waveguide grating (AWG) filtering, is experimentally demonstrated. The wavelength converter can provide excellent operation including extinction ratio and Q factor. The simultaneous two wavelength conversion outputs are successfully obtained at 20 Gb/s.     

Optical-frequency dependent modal birefringence and polarization mode dispersion of birefringent single-mode optical fibers over a broadband optical wavelength range

Optical-frequency dependent polarization mode dispersion as well as modal birefringence of three kinds of specially designed hollow-induced birefringent single-mode fiber are measured over an optical frequency range between 345 and 410 THz by optical frequency-domain interferometry.     

Multiple four-wave mixing-induced modulational instability in highly birefringent fibers

Theoretical and experimental results are presented that illustrate efficient generation of new optical frequencies by means of induced modulational instability in birefringent fibers for an initially highly phase-mismatched process. Modulational instability is assisted by multiple four-wave mixing interactions. This technique relaxes the strict spectral limitations imposed by the phase-matching conditions on the signal used for frequency conversion by means of modulational instability.