Numerical Studies of Brillouin-induced Polarization Pulling of Probe and Pump in Weakly-Birefringent Optical fibers with Applications to BOTDA

Bohbot, JonathanHadar, RaananThévenaz, LucSoto, Marcelo A.Tur, Moshe2023-02-202023-02-202022-09-0110.1364/OFS.2022.Th4.42https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/194954Numerical solution of the involved governing equations confirm that the commonly used two orthogonal sets of gain- and loss-probes in BOTDA, differently affect the evolution of the pump state-of- polarization, thereby potentially compromising the minimization of polarization fading.Numerical Studies of Brillouin-induced Polarization Pulling of Probe and Pump in Weakly-Birefringent Optical fibers with Applications to BOTDAtext::conference output::conference proceedings::conference paper