Polarization Instability and Bistability in Birefringent Nonlinear Media

Herbert G. Winful

doi:10.1364/OBI.1985.WB3

Topical Meeting on Optical Bistability (OB3)
Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1985),
paper WB3
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OBI.1985.WB3

Polarization Instability and Bistability in Birefringent Nonlinear Media

Herbert G. Winful

Optical Bistability 1985

Tucson, Arizona United States
2–4 December 1985
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Abstract

This paper presents a coupled mode theory of self-induced changes in the polarization state of an intense light beam in a birefringent nonlinear medium. The analysis is relevant to the operation of recently demonstrated all-optical logic gates, pulse shapers, and intensity discriminators that rely on intensity-dependent polarization states in birefringent optical fibers.^1-3

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