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Intrapulse stimulated Raman scattering and ultrashort solitons in optical fibers
Author(s): Clifford Headley III; Govind P. Agrawal; A. C. Reardon
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Paper Abstract

Intrapulse stimulated Raman scattering (ISRS) is an important physical phenomenon responsible for the self-induced frequency shift of solitons in optical fibers. ISRS is generally treated as a perturbation term in the nonlinear Schrodinger equation, an approximation that breaks down for ultrashort optical pulses. The authors obtain the solitary-wave solutions of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation by including both ISRS and self-steepening. These solutions do not correspond to optical pulses but represent optical fronts or optical shocks. The properties of ISRS-supported optical shocks are discussed in detail.

Paper Details

Date Published: 1 September 1991
PDF: 5 pages
Proc. SPIE 1497, Nonlinear Optics and Materials, (1 September 1991); doi: 10.1117/12.46775
Show Author Affiliations
Clifford Headley III, Institute of Optics/Univ. of Rochester (United States)
Govind P. Agrawal, Institute of Optics/Univ. of Rochester (United States)
A. C. Reardon, Univ. of Rochester (United States)


Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 1497:
Nonlinear Optics and Materials
Cyrus D. Cantrell; Charles M. Bowden, Editor(s)

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