Abstract
The propagation of a quasimonochromatic beam in an optical fiber may be unstable owing to phase-matched four-wave mixing. The phase matching may arise in a variety of ways, and the resulting instabilities are commonly referred to as modulational instabilities. Here I consider the cross-phase-modulational (XPM) instability arising in a high birefringence optical fiber in the normal dispersion (visible) regime when the pump is polarized at 45° to the principal axes of birefringence.1,2 Orthogonally polarized sidebands are generated along these axes. Phase matching arises from a balance between dispersion and the group velocity mismatch of the sidebands and dictates that the up-shifted sideband travels on the fast axis. The sidebands result in terahertz modulation of the pump and are interesting from the point of view of optical communications. From a quantum-statistical perspective, the quantum correlations, which develop as the sidebands are generated from quantum noise, are the focus of attention here.
© 1991 Optical Society of America
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