Citation
Re. Slusher et al., Bragg-grating-enhanced polarization instabilities, OPTICS LETT, 25(10), 2000, pp. 749-751
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science","Optics & Acoustics
Journal title
OPTICS LETTERS
ISSN journal
01469592
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Volume
25
Issue
10
Year of publication
2000
Pages
749 - 751
Database
ISI
SICI code
0146-9592(20000515)25:10<749:BPI>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
Experiments demonstrate a dramatic decrease in polarization-instability thr
eshold as an optical pulse is tuned near the short-wavelength edge of the p
hotonic bandgap formed by a fiber Bragg grating. These enhanced nonlinear i
nteractions and birefringent effects are modeled with coupled-mode numerica
l simulations. Nonlinearities are shown to increase much more rapidly than
the effective birefringence as the pulse wavelength approaches the bandgap
edge. (C) 2000 Optical Society of America.