Open AccessFour Wave Mixing-Based Time Lens for Orthogonal Polarized Input Signals
Author(s) -
Avi Klein,
Shir Shahal,
Gilad Masri,
Hamootal Duadi,
Moti Fridman
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
ieee photonics journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1943-0655
pISSN - 1943-0647
DOI - 10.1109/jphot.2017.2690899
Subject(s) - engineered materials, dielectrics and plasmas , photonics and electrooptics
We present highly efficient time-lenses for orthogonal polarized signal waves with a specific state of polarization. Our four-wave mixing based time-lenses exploit polarization mode dispersion to compensate for chromatic dispersion. The results reveal that the efficiency of the time-lens is increased fivefold for both states of polarization. We also compensate for any polarization-dependent losses in the system by tailoring the pump state of polarization. Our time-lenses can be implemented in current telecommunication systems together with polarization division multiplexing in order to reach higher bandwidth.