Abstract

Since the early studies by E. P Ippen and R. H. Stolen [1], nonlinear optical effects in optical fibers have been studied extensively, and found useful applications such as wavelength conversion and pulse compression [2-5]. The fundamental fiber nonlinearities are the stimulated Raman scattering (SRS), stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS), parametric mixing and self phase modulation, all of which come from the third order nonlinear polarization. Due to the high light intensity and long interaction length possible in low-loss single-mode optical fibers, these effects can be induced with relatively low pumping power levels [6,7]. For example, the SBS can occur in singlemode fibers with input powers less than 10 mW.

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