POLARIZATION DOMAINS AND INSTABILITIES IN NONLINEAR-OPTICAL FIBERS

Authors
WABNITZ S DAINO B
Citation
S. Wabnitz et B. Daino, POLARIZATION DOMAINS AND INSTABILITIES IN NONLINEAR-OPTICAL FIBERS, Physics letters. A, 182(2-3), 1993, pp. 289-293
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physics letters. A → ACNP
ISSN journal
03759601
Volume
182
Issue
2-3
Year of publication
1993
Pages
289 - 293
Database
ISI
SICI code
0375-9601(1993)182:2-3<289:PDAIIN>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
We study the possibility of generating polarization wall solitary wave s in nonlinear optical fibers. These walls represent a polarization sw itching between two domains along the fiber where the state of polariz ation of two intense counterpropagating beams is a stable arrangement of the field. We show that the presence of spatiotemporal chaotic inst abilities set an upper bound to the maximum fiber length (or input pow er).