Nonlinear-optical loop mirror demultiplexer using a random birefringence fiber: comparisons between simulations and experiments
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Arend, Mark F., Michael L. Dennis, Irl N. Duling, Ekaterina A. Golovchenko, Alexei N. Pilipetskii, and Curtis R. Menyuk. “Nonlinear-Optical Loop Mirror Demultiplexer Using a Random Birefringence Fiber: Comparisons between Simulations and Experiments.” Optics Letters 22, no. 12 (June 15, 1997): 886–88. https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.22.000886.
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A numerical simulation of the switching characteristics of a polarization multiplexed nonlinear-optical loop mirror demultiplexer is presented and compared with experiment. The model assumes that the optical fiber that composes the loop has a randomly varying birefringence, that the signal and the control pulses have the same frequency, and that these pulses are nearly solitons. Factors that affect the shape and the width of the switching window curve are discussed. A phase-dependent modulation of the switching window curve, which is due to incomplete averaging of the light polarization state, is observed both experimentally and numerically. Models in which the randomness is neglected are not able to describe this modulation adequately.