Schmidt decompositions of parametric processes II: Vector four-wave mixing
Journal article, 2013
In vector four-wave mixing, one or two strong pump waves drive two weak signal and idler waves, each of which has two polarization components. In this paper, vector four-wave mixing processes in a randomly-birefringent fiber (modulation interaction, phase conjugation and Bragg scattering) are studied in detail. For each process, the Schmidt decompositions of the coupling matrices facilitate the solution of the signal-idler equations and the Schmidt decomposition of the associated transfer matrix. The results of this paper are valid for arbitrary pump polarizations.
propagation
randomly varying birefringence
beam splitter
optical-fibers
equations
polarization-mode dispersion
phase-sensitive amplification
efficiency
amplifiers
Author
Colin McKinstrie
Nokia Bell Labs
J. R. Ott
Universite de Geneve
Magnus Karlsson
Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics
Optics Express
1094-4087 (ISSN)
Vol. 21 9 11009-11020Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
Other Natural Sciences
DOI
10.1364/OE.21.011009