Useful and detrimental aspects of self-phase modulation in fiber optical applications
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Fiber and Integrated Optics
- Vol. 7 (3) , 205-215
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01468038808221276
Abstract
This paper reviews the features of self-phase modulation (SPM) in single-mode optical fibers and discusses the useful and detrimental aspects of this fiber nonlinearity with respect to fiber optical transmission and device applications. After a short introduction to the physical origin of self-phase modulation in fibers the following topics will be addressed: transmission system limitations due to SPM, soliton propagation, optical pulse compression, modulational instability.Keywords
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