40-GHz pulse source based on XPM-induced focusing in normally dispersive optical fibers

Javier Nuño (1) , Marin Gilles (1) , Massimiliano Guasoni (1) , Bertrand Kibler (1) , Christophe Finot (1) , Julien Fatome (1)

1 ICB - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne

We theoretically and experimentally investigate the design of a high-repetition rate source delivering well-separated optical pulses due to the nonlinear compression of a dual-frequency beat signal within a cavity-less normally dispersive fiber-based setup. This system is well described by a set of two coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations for which the traditional normally dispersive defocusing regime is turned in a focusing temporal lens through a degenerated cross-phase modulation process (XPM). More precisely, the temporal compression of the initial beating is performed by the combined effects of normal dispersion and XPM-induced nonlinear phase shift yield by an intense beat-signal on its weak out-of-phase replica co-propagating with orthogonal polarizations. This adiabatic reshaping process allows us to experimentally demonstrate the generation of a 40-GHz well-separated 3.3-ps pulse train at 1550 nm in a 5-km long normally dispersive fiber.

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Javier Nuño, Marin Gilles, Massimiliano Guasoni, Bertrand Kibler, Christophe Finot, et al.. 40-GHz pulse source based on XPM-induced focusing in normally dispersive optical fibers. Optics Letters, 2016, 41 (6), pp.1110-1113. ⟨10.1364/OL.41.001110⟩. ⟨hal-01244552⟩