Title :
Light-by-light polarization control for telecommunication applications
Author :
Fatome, Julien ; Pitois, Stéphane ; Morin, Philippe ; Finot, Christophe ; Millot, Guy
Author_Institution :
Lab. Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, Univ. de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Abstract :
In this work, we report for the first time the experimental achievement of an all-fibered polarization attraction, which can occur in optical fibers at telecommunication wavelengths. More precisely, we have experimentally shown that is possible to all-optically control and stabilize the state of polarization of a 10 Gbit/s telecommunication signal through the injection of a counter-propagating control pump wave. Eye diagrams recordings and bit error rate measurements have shown that this new type of all-optical function, almost lossless and instantaneous has a promising potential for telecommunication applications.
Keywords :
light polarisation; optical fibre communication; all-fibered polarization attraction; all-optical function; counter-propagating control pump wave; eye diagrams; light-by-light polarization control; optical fibers; telecommunication applications; telecommunication wavelengths; Bit error rate; Lighting control; Loss measurement; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical polarization; Optical recording; Telecommunication control; Wavelength measurement; Nonlinear effect; Optical fiber; Polarization control; all-optical signal processing;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2010 12th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7799-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7797-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2010.5549250
