Ligth by light polarization control for telecommunication applications

Julien Fatome (1) , Stéphane Pitois (2) , Philippe Morin (2) , Christophe Finot (2) , Guy Millot (2)

1 SLCO
2 ICB - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne

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.

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Julien Fatome, Stéphane Pitois, Philippe Morin, Christophe Finot, Guy Millot. Ligth by light polarization control for telecommunication applications. 12th International Conference on Transparent Optical Network, Jun 2010, Munich, Germany. pp.Mo.B1.3. ⟨hal-00470023⟩