Open AccessPolarization instability of Raman solitons ejected during supercontinuum generation
Author(s) -
Qing Chao,
Kelvin Wagner
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.23.033691
Subject(s) - supercontinuum , physics , polarization (electrochemistry) , optics , raman spectroscopy , instability , birefringence , soliton , photonic crystal fiber , raman scattering , nonlinear system , optical fiber , quantum mechanics , chemistry
We numerically investigate polarization instability of soliton fission and the polarization dynamics of Raman solitons ejected during supercontinuum generation in a photonics crystal fiber using the coupled vector generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equations for both linear and circular birefringent fibers. The evolution of the state of polarizations of the ejected Raman soliton as representated on the Poincaré sphere is affected by both nonlinear and linear polarization rotations on the Poincaré sphere. The polarization dynamics reveal the presence of a polarization separatrix and the emergence of stable slow and unstable fast eigen-polarizations for the Raman solitons ejected in the supercontinuum generation process. Circularly birefringent fiber is investigated and found to simplify the nonlinear polarization dynamics.