Transient Control of SBS Chaotic Instability in Optical Fiber Communication Systems

摘要

In this paper the transient control of chaos induced instability in Brillouin-active fiber is described. The inherent optical feedback by the backscattered Stokes wave in optical fiber communication systems leads to instabilities in the form of optical chaos. At weak power, the nature of the Brillouin instability can occur at before threshold. At strong power, the temporal evolution above threshold is periodic and at higher intensity can become chaotic. The paradigm of optical chaos in fiber serves as a test for fundamental study of chaos and its suppression and exploitation in practical application in communication and sensing.