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Propagation of pulses in optical fibers in the region of a dispersion minimum. Role of nonlinearity and higher-order dispersion

V. A. Vyslouh


Abstract: A numerical investigation is reported of the simultaneous influence of the Kerr nonlinearity and of the thirdorder dispersion on the envelope of picosecond pulses propagating in a single-mode optical fiber. It is shown that in the region of zero second-order dispersion (k''_ω²=0, λ≈1.3 μ) the nonlinearity results in splitting of an input pulse into subpulses, causes its overall broadening, and induces an additional delay of the energy center of a wave packet compared with the linear case.

UDC: 621.391.029

PACS: 42.80.Mv, 42.10.Qj

Received: 02.11.1982

 English version: Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1983, 13:8, 1113–1114

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