Abstract
We study the impact of residual random birefringence along the fiber length and the resulting polarization-mode dispersion and show that they limit the performance of dual-pump parametric amplifiers even when two pumps are chosen to be orthogonally polarized initially.
© 2004 Optical Society of America
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