A Study on the Propagation Characteristics of Pulses in Optical Fiber Communication Systems

Author

Ramprasad, A.V. ; Meenakshi, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Anna Univ., Madras

fYear

2006

fDate

9-12 May 2006

Firstpage

263

Lastpage

266

Abstract

The one dimensional nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLSE) have wide range of applications in nonlinear optical and laser physics. The NLSE is pivotal to the description of RZ optical communications link providing description not only of pulse transmission in the presence of dispersion and nonlinearities but also pulse evolution during amplification in a single mode optical amplifier. The design of new optical systems can be carried out by analyzing the propagation characteristics of the pulses in the fiber media. In this paper we believe that for the first time the NLSE equation was solved by both the scalar and vector approach considering without and with the polarization concepts respectively. Various nonlinear effects like self phase modulations, stimulated Raman scattering and self steepening effects are considered while solving the equation. The propagation characteristic of the pulses in the fiber media is analyzed and verified by simulation . The most commonly used algorithm in fiber system simulation is the split step method. It is based on the partition of fibers into spans

Keywords

light propagation; nonlinear equations; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; self-phase modulation; stimulated Raman scattering; RZ optical communications link; dispersion; fiber media; laser physics; nonlinear Schrodinger equation; nonlinear optical; optical fiber communication systems; pulse transmission; pulses propagation characteristics; self phase modulations; self steepening effects; single mode optical amplifier; split step method; stimulated Raman scattering; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear equations; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical propagation; Optical pulses; Optical scattering; Pulse amplifiers; Stimulated emission; NLSE(Nonlinear schrodinger equation); SRS Stimulated Raman scattering; Self steepening effect;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Propagation on Interconnects, 2006. IEEE Workshop on

Conference_Location

Berlin

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0455-x

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0455-x

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPI.2006.289240

Filename

4069475