The singlemode waveguide structure maintains the spatial profile unaffected. Nonlinearity can be observed with picosecond pulses of only a few Watt of peak power. Kerr nonlinearity leads to the modulation of the temporal phase of a pulse propagating in a nonlinear waveguide :. Due to the Kerr effect, high optical intensity in a medium (e. An ultrashort pulse of light, when travelling in a medium, will induce a varying refractive index of the medium due to the optical Kerr effect. We will vary the optical dispersion from. This paper presents a study of non-linear effects occurring in optical fibers, which are detrimental to optical communications using a commercial package based on the Split-Step Fourier Method (SSFM). The transmission rate was 10Gb/s and the system was analyzed in terms of Bit Error Rate (BER), of. Self-phase modulation (SPM) occuring at moderate power levels in single-mode fibers has important implications on long-range optical fiber transmission.
[PDF Version]