Nonlinear pulse distortion in single-mode optical fibers at the zero-dispersion wavelength

GP Agrawal, MJ Potasek - Physical Review A, 1986 - APS
The propagation of optical pulses is considered at the zero-dispersion wavelength of
nonlinear dispersive fibers. Even in the absence of group-velocity (first-order) dispersion …

Evolution of femtosecond pulses in single-mode fibers having higher-order nonlinearity and dispersion

E Bourkoff, W Zhao, RI Joseph, DN Christodoulides - Optics letters, 1987 - opg.optica.org
Using computer simulations, we examine the effects of higher-order dispersive and
nonlinear propagation processes on the spectral and time development of ultrashort, high …

Analytic and numerical study of pulse broadening in nonlinear dispersive optical fibers

MJ Potasek, GP Agrawal, SC Pinault - JOSA B, 1986 - opg.optica.org
Pulse propagation in optical fibers is considered after including the effects of chromatic
dispersion and nonlinearity. To estimate the extent of pulse broadening, an analytic …

Extreme picosecond pulse narrowing by means of soliton effect in single-mode optical fibers

LF Mollenauer, RH Stolen, JP Gordon, WJ Tomlinson - Optics letters, 1983 - opg.optica.org
We report the narrowing of pulses, initially 7 psec FWHM, to widths as small as 0.26 psec by
various lengths, short relative to the soliton period, of single-mode, low-loss optical fiber …

Analytic study of pulse broadening in dispersive optical fibers

D Anderson, M Lisak - Physical Review A, 1987 - APS
It is demonstrated that for an optical pulse propagating along an optical fiber the rms pulse
width varies parabolically with distance, irrespective of initial pulse form and frequency chirp …

Direct measurement of pulse distortion near the zero-dispersion wavelength in an optical fiber by frequency-resolved optical gating

JM Dudley, LP Barry, PG Bollond, JD Harvey… - Optics letters, 1997 - opg.optica.org
The technique of frequency-resolved optical gating is used to characterize the intensity and
the phase of picosecond pulses after propagation through 700 m of fiber at close to the zero …

Solitons in the region of the minimum group-velocity dispersion of single-mode optical fibers

AS Gouveia-Neto, ME Faldon, JR Taylor - Optics letters, 1988 - opg.optica.org
Pulses launched with their central wavelength in the region of the minimum-dispersion
wavelength of a single-mode optical fiber exhibit a distinct spectral splitting due to the …

Picosecond steps and dark pulses through nonlinear single mode fibers

P Emplit, JP Hamaide, F Reynaud, C Froehly… - Optics …, 1987 - Elsevier
We experimentally observed transmission of “negative pulses” through a single mode
optical fiber in conditions where self-phase modulation, due to self induced variations of …

Radiations by ''solitons''at the zero group-dispersion wavelength of single-mode optical fibers

PKA Wai, HH Chen, YC Lee - Physical Review A, 1990 - APS
Nonlinear pulse propagation at the zero group-dispersion wavelength is studied analytically.
It is discovered that, after the characteristic initial frequency splitting, evolution of the pulse …

Nonlinear asymmetric self-phase modulation and self-steepening of pulses in long optical waveguides

D Anderson, M Lisak - Physical Review A, 1983 - APS
For nonlinear short-pulse propagation in long optical fibers, the conventional static
approximation of the nonlinear terms in the wave equation must be extended to include the …