Spectral Broadening Induced by Self-Phase Modulation
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Amplification of ultra-short pulses in optical fibers can be degraded by the nonlinear phenomenon of self-phase modulation (SPM), resulting in considerable spectral broadening and distortion. Variation in the refractive index of the medium is caused by the optical Kerr effect.
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Contributed by: Ruibo Jin (January 2016)
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For more details about self-phase-modulation (SPM) induced spectral broadening, see chapter 4.1 of [1]. The author thanks Jason Biggs for helpful discussions.
Reference
[1] G. P. Agrawal, Nonlinear Fiber Optics, Cambridge: Academic Press, 2012. www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123970237.
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Published: January 26 2016