
In optical fibers, SPM can be the dominant effect on an ultrashort pulse if the peak power is high (leading to strong SPM) while the chromatic dispersion is weak, so that the pulse duration remains approximately constant.įigure 3 shows an example case where that assumption is well fulfilled within the first 30 mm of fiber here, the overall spectral width rises about linearly with the propagation distance. The simulation has been done with the software RP Fiber Power. Spectrum of an initially unchirped 1-ps pulse which has experienced strong self-phase modulation (with a peak nonlinear phase shift of 20 rad), leading to characteristic oscillations of the power spectral density. The reason for the oscillatory character is essentially that the instantaneous frequency undergoes strong excursions, so that in general there are contributions from two different times to the Fourier integral for a given frequency component.ĭepending on the exact frequency, these contributions may constructively add up or cancel each other (see also Ref.


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