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Published on: December 3, 2013
Schmidt decompositions of parametric processes II: vector four-wave mixing
C J McKinstrie1, J R Ott, M Karlsson
1Bell Laboratories, Alcatel–Lucent, Holmdel, New Jersey 07733, USA. mckinstrie@alcatel-lucent.com
Abstract:
In vector four-wave mixing, one or two strong pump waves drive two weak signal and idler waves, each of which has two polarization components. In this paper, vector four-wave mixing processes in a randomly-birefringent fiber (modulation interaction, phase conjugation and Bragg scattering) are studied in detail. For each process, the Schmidt decompositions of the coupling matrices facilitate the solution of the signal-idler equations and the Schmidt decomposition of the associated transfer matrix. The results of this paper are valid for arbitrary pump polarizations.
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