Title :
Observation of stimulated raman scattering and nonlinear pulse broadening at 1.32 μm in monomode optical fibres
Author :
Blow, K.J. ; Nelson, B.P.
Author_Institution :
British Telecom, BT Research Laboratories, Ipswich, UK
fDate :
6/1/1987 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We have observed stimulated Raman scattering and nonlinear enhanced pulse broadening at 1.32 μm. We used two monomode optical fibres with zero-dispersion wavelengths of 1.28 and 1.55 μm. This enabled us to observe the effect of dispersion on the interaction length for Raman scattering.
Keywords :
nonlinear optics; optical fibres; stimulated Raman scattering; 1.28 micron; 1.32 micron; 1.55 micron; Stokes radiation; dispersion; grain spectrum peak pulse; high dispersion fibres; interaction length; low-dispersion fibres; monomode optical fibres; nonlinear pulse broadening; pump pulse long tail; stimulated Raman scattering; threshold; zero-dispersion wavelengths; Optical fibres, Nonlinear optics, Lasers;
Journal_Title :
Optoelectronics, IEE Proceedings J
DOI :
10.1049/ip-j.1987.0028
