Effects of self-phase-modulation on femtosecond pulse transmission over a 2.5-km dispersion-compensated link with broadening and compression ratio >300

Author

Shen, S. ; Chang, C.-C. ; Sardesai, Harshad P ; Weiner, A.M.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

3-8 May 1998

Firstpage

493

Lastpage

495

Abstract

Summary form only given. We report our experiment and simulation results of self-phase modulation (SPM) effects on sub-500-fs pulses over the combined standard single-mode fiber and dispersion-compensating fiber transmission link with large broadening and recompression ratio >300. The effects of nonlinearity on postcompensation and precompensation links are different. A dramatic spectral-narrowing effect was observed in the postcompensation scenario. Our results provide more insight about the interaction between SPM effects and fiber dispersions in the femtosecond pulse regime and help to define the power limit for ultrashort-pulse dispersion-compensated links.

Keywords

optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical pulse compression; self-phase modulation; 2.5 km; compression ratio; dispersion-compensated link; dispersion-compensating fiber; femtosecond pulse transmission; large broadening; nonlinearity effects; postcompensation links; power limit; precompensation links; self-phase-modulation; spectral-narrowing effect; standard single-mode fiber; ultrashort-pulse; Autocorrelation; Fiber nonlinear optics; Frequency; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse modulation; Solitons; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-339-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1998.676539

Filename

676539