中国物理B ›› 2008, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (3): 995-999.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/17/3/041

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Polarization dependent dispersion and its impact on optical parametric process in high nonlinear microstructure fibre

肖礼, 张巍, 黄翊东, 彭江得   

  1. Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • 收稿日期:2007-07-12 修回日期:2007-07-27 出版日期:2008-03-04 发布日期:2008-03-04
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the National Basic Research Program (973 Program) of China (Grant No 2003CB314904).

Polarization dependent dispersion and its impact on optical parametric process in high nonlinear microstructure fibre

Xiao Li(肖礼)†, Zhang Wei(张巍), Huang Yi-Dong(黄翊东), and Peng Jiang-De(彭江得)   

  1. Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • Received:2007-07-12 Revised:2007-07-27 Online:2008-03-04 Published:2008-03-04
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Basic Research Program (973 Program) of China (Grant No 2003CB314904).

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摘要： High nonlinear microstructure fibre (HNMF) is preferred in nonlinear fibre optics, especially in the applications of optical parametric effects, due to its high optical nonlinear coefficient. However, polarization dependent dispersion will impact the nonlinear optical parametric process in HNMFs. In this paper, modulation instability (MI) method is used to measure the polarization dependent dispersion of a piece of commercial HNMF, including the group velocity dispersion, the dispersion slope, the fourth-order dispersion and group birefringence. It also experimentally demonstrates the impact of the polarization dependent dispersion on the continuous wave supercontinuum (SC) generation. On one axis MI sidebands with symmetric frequency detunings are generated, while on the other axis with larger MI frequency detuning, SC is generated by soliton self-frequency shift.

Abstract: High nonlinear microstructure fibre (HNMF) is preferred in nonlinear fibre optics, especially in the applications of optical parametric effects, due to its high optical nonlinear coefficient. However, polarization dependent dispersion will impact the nonlinear optical parametric process in HNMFs. In this paper, modulation instability (MI) method is used to measure the polarization dependent dispersion of a piece of commercial HNMF, including the group velocity dispersion, the dispersion slope, the fourth-order dispersion and group birefringence. It also experimentally demonstrates the impact of the polarization dependent dispersion on the continuous wave supercontinuum (SC) generation. On one axis MI sidebands with symmetric frequency detunings are generated, while on the other axis with larger MI frequency detuning, SC is generated by soliton self-frequency shift.

Key words: microstructure fibre, modulation instability, dispersion, birefringence

中图分类号:  (Birefringence, polarization)

  • 42.81.Gs
42.65.Sf (Dynamics of nonlinear optical systems; optical instabilities, optical chaos and complexity, and optical spatio-temporal dynamics) 42.65.Tg (Optical solitons; nonlinear guided waves) 42.65.Yj (Optical parametric oscillators and amplifiers)