Abstract

We show that the combination of cross-phase modulation and polarization-mode dispersion inside optical fibers leads to a novel phenomenon of intrapulse depolarization manifested as different random states of polarization across the pulse profile. Such polarization evolution of optical pulses is directly analogous to the phenomenon of spin decoherence in semiconductors or pseudospin relaxation in atoms.

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Characterization of spun fibers with millimeter spin periods

Yong Wang, Chang-Qing Xu, and Viatcheslav Izraelian
Opt. Express 13(10) 3841-3851 (2005)

Ultrafast pulse retiming by cross-phase modulation in an anomalous-dispersion polarization-maintaining fiber

Kazi S. Abedin
Opt. Lett. 30(22) 2979-2981 (2005)

Measurement of pulse amplitude and phase using cross-phase modulation in microstructure fiber

P. Honzatko, J. Kanka, and B. Vrany
Opt. Lett. 30(14) 1821-1823 (2005)

Experimental observation of universality in depolarized light scattering

Graciana Puentes, Dirk Voigt, Andrea Aiello, and J. P. Woerdman
Opt. Lett. 30(23) 3216-3218 (2005)

Spectral Talbot phenomena of frequency combs induced by cross-phase modulation in optical fibers

José Azaña
Opt. Lett. 30(3) 227-229 (2005)