Polarization-Independent Cross-Phase Modulation Using Nonlinear Birefringent Fiber

Authors

Anthony S. Lenihan
Reza Salem
Gary M. Carter
T. E. Murphy

Abstract

We report a new method for polarization-independent cross-phase modulation in nonlinear fiber. The technique utilizes fiber birefringence to eliminate polarization dependence. We successfully applied the technique for polarization independent demultiplexing at 80 Gb/s.

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• in Frontiers in Optics 2006, the 90th Annual OSA Meeting on CD-ROM (The Optical Society of America, Washington, DC, 2006), FTuP2
  pol-independent-xpm.pdf (PDF format, 351 kB)
• slides presented at conference:
  pol-independent-xpm.ppt (PPT format, 2.2 MB)

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