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Experimental investigation of polarization modulation instability in a double-clad single-mode tellurite optical fiber

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A double-clad single-mode tellurite optical fiber (DC-SMTOF) with a loss of 0.5 dB/m @1545.1 nm was fabricated based on the TeO2–ZnO–Li2O–Bi2O3 (TZLB) material. During the fiber drawing process, a low level of residual birefringence was produced, which gave a chance for the investigation of the polarization modulation instability (PMI). With a nanosecond laser operated at 1545.1 nm as the pump source, the PMI effect in the DC-SMTOF was investigated using different fiber length and different average pump power. This investigation of the PMI generation in non-silica optical fibers may provide guidance for the generation of the highly repetitive optical pulse train.

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This work is supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2019YFB2204001and 2017YFA0701201), National Natural Science Foundation of China (61775032 and 11604042), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (N180406002, N180408018, and N2004021), JSPS KAKENHI Grant (17K18891 and 18H01504), JSPS and CERN under the JSPS-CERN joint research program, and 111 Project (B16009). The authors thank the Liao Ning Revitalization Talents Program.

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    Tonglei Cheng, Fan Zhang, Shuguang Li, Xin Yan, Fang Wang & Xuenan Zhang

  2. Research Center for Advanced Photon Technology, Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, 468-8511, Japan

    Takenobu Suzuki & Yasutake Ohishi

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Cheng, T., Zhang, F., Li, S. et al. Experimental investigation of polarization modulation instability in a double-clad single-mode tellurite optical fiber. Appl. Phys. B 126, 180 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-020-07531-3

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