Experimental evidence of Brillouin-induced polarization wheeling in highly birefringent optical fibers.
We study the influence of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering on the polarization stabilization of a light beam propagating in a highly-birefringent optical fiber. In particular, due to a saturation effect, we find that the output polarization lies on a ring when the polarization is represented onto the Poincaré sphere.
Fatome
Julien
J
Institut Carnot de Bourgogne UMR 5209 CNRS-Université de Bourgogne, 9 av. Alain Savary, 21078 Dijon, France. jfatome@u-bourgogne.fr
Pitois
Stéphane
S
Millot
Guy
G