title: Demonstration of polarization pulling using a fiber-optic parametric amplifier.
abstract: We report the observation of all-optical polarization pulling of an initially polarization-scrambled signal using parametric amplification in a highly nonlinear optical fiber. Broadband polarization pulling has been achieved both for the signal and idler waves with up to 25 dB gain using the strong polarization sensitivity of parametric amplifiers. We further derive the probability distribution function for the final polarization state, assuming a randomly polarized initial state, and we show that it agrees well with the experiments.
authors.affiliation: Institut FEMTO-ST, Département d’Optique, UMR 6174 CNRS-Université de Franche-Comté, 25000 Besançon, France.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Stiller
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Morin
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fatome
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pitois
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lantz
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Maillotte
authors.forename: C R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Menyuk
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sylvestre
mesh_terms: D000669:Amplifiers, Electronic; D003198:Computer Simulation; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D055100:Optical Fibers