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A Photonic System for Generating Unconditional Polarization-Entangled Photons Based on Multiple Quantum Interference
Published on: September 5, 2019
Polarization instability of ultrashort pulses as a source of vectorial supercontinuum
Aleksandr A Voronin1, Il'ya V Fedotov, Jens Kobelke
1Physics Department, International Laser Center, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119992, Russia.
Abstract:
Polarization instability (PI) of ultrashort light pulses, giving rise to vectorial supercontinuum generation, is demonstrated using a subwavelength-core, highly birefringent, normally dispersive optical fiber. The evolution of ultrashort pulses in the regime of PI is shown to radically differ from polarization-instability dynamics of cw fields and longer laser pulses. As the peak power of the laser field decreases along the propagation path due to dispersion-induced pulse stretching, the Poincaré-sphere map of field dynamics is shown to evolve from the behavior typical of PI in the highly nonlinear regime toward the beating dynamics of uncoupled polarization modes, characteristic of low field intensities and cw fields.
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