Abstract
A comprehensive theoretical model to investigate phase matching in degenerate polarized fiber optical parametric amplifiers (FOPAs) in randomly birefringent fibers is developed. We show that in the small signal region, simulation results from the proposed model agree well with the experimental results. It was also shown that four waves mixing (FWM) effect could compensate polarization mode dispersion (PMD) induced phase mismatch. Similar to counter-propagating fiber Raman amplifiers (FRAs), the degree of polarization of FOPAs approaches unity exponentially with the gain but at a larger rate 1/Γ. Thus larger polarization-pulling can be achieved in FOPAs than the counter-propagating FRAs for the same gain.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 32747-32758 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Optics Express |
Volume | 23 |
Issue number | 25 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 14 Dec 2015 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics