Stokes-space formalism for Bragg scattering in a fiber

✍ Scribed by C.J. McKinstrie

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 393 KB
• Volume: 282
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0030-4018
• DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2008.12.066

✦ Synopsis

Optical frequency conversion by four-wave mixing (Bragg scattering) in a fiber is considered. The evolution of this process can be modeled using the signal and idler amplitudes, which are complex, or Stokeslike parameters, which are real. The Stokes-space formalism allows one to visualize power and phase information simultaneously, and produces a simple evolution equation for the Stokes parameters.