title: Simultaneous scalar and cross-phase modulation instabilities in highly birefringent photonic crystal fiber.
abstract: We report the experimental observation of scalar and cross-phase modulation instabilities by pumping a highly birefringent photonic crystal fiber in the normal dispersion regime at 45° to its principal polarization axes. Five sideband pairs (two scalar and three vector ones) are observed simultaneously in the spontaneous regime, four of which have a large frequency shift from the pump, in the range 79-93 THz. These results are in excellent agreement with phase-matching arguments and numerical simulations.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire PhLAM (UMR CNRS 8523), IRCICA (USR CNRS 3380), Université Lille 1, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. alexandre.kudlinski@univ-lille1.fr
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kudlinski
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bendahmane
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Labat
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Virally
authors.forename: R T
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Murray
authors.forename: E J R
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Kelleher
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mussot
mesh_terms: D016477:Artifacts; D001718:Birefringence; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D003460:Crystallization; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D007834:Lasers; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013685:Telecommunications / Q000295:instrumentation*