Measurements of frequency instabilities and slow random evolution of inter-modal four-wave mixing in few-mode fibers
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Esmaeelpour, Mina; Essiambre, Rene-Jean; Fontaine, Nicolas K.; Ryf, Roland; Toulouse, Jean
- Source
- 2015 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on. :1-3 Sep, 2015
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Frequency measurement
Probes
Couplings
Frequency dependence
Transfer functions
Optimized production technology
Four-wave mixing
- Language
Large fluctuations of inter-modal four-wave mixing between the LP01 and LP11 modes of a few-mode fiber are experimentally observed. These fluctuations exhibit strong frequency dependence and can be persistent in time.