Dl. Butler et al., OPERATION OF A NONLINEAR-OPTICAL LOOP MIRROR WITH ORTHOGONALLY POLARIZED WAVES IN NONPOLARIZATION-PRESERVING, SINGLE-MODE FIBER, IEEE photonics technology letters, 8(6), 1996, pp. 779-781
We demonstrate stable operation of a NOLM using orthogonally polarized
control and signal beams in nonpolarization-preserving, single-mode f
iber, The NOLM can transcribe data from an optically incoherent input
at one wavelength to a coherent output over a range of wavelengths, Op
eration of the NOLM without tuning for the input bit rate is possible
over a range of bit rates from less than 1 Gb/s to more than 50 Gb/s.