Open AccessPolarized fiber optical parametric amplification in randomly birefringent fibers
Author(s) -
Shao Hao Wang,
Xinchuan Xu,
P. K. A. Wai
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.23.032747
Subject(s) - optics , birefringence , polarization mode dispersion , polarization (electrochemistry) , polarization maintaining optical fiber , dispersion shifted fiber , optical fiber , optical amplifier , photonic crystal fiber , four wave mixing , physics , parametric statistics , amplifier , optical parametric amplifier , materials science , nonlinear optics , fiber optic sensor , optoelectronics , laser , chemistry , statistics , mathematics , cmos
A comprehensive theoretical model to investigate phase matching in degenerate polarized fiber optical parametric amplifiers (FOPAs) in randomly birefringent fibers is developed. We show that in the small signal region, simulation results from the proposed model agree well with the experimental results. It was also shown that four waves mixing (FWM) effect could compensate polarization mode dispersion (PMD) induced phase mismatch. Similar to counter-propagating fiber Raman amplifiers (FRAs), the degree of polarization of FOPAs approaches unity exponentially with the gain but at a larger rate 1/Γ. Thus larger polarization-pulling can be achieved in FOPAs than the counter-propagating FRAs for the same gain.