Abstract
Theoretical studies of nonlinear fiber optics1 have generally assumed a deterministic form for the input electromagnetic field. However, this is not the case in practice since even laser light is only partially coherent and has a finite spectral bandwidth. Recently, Manassah2 investigated the effect of self-phase modulation (SPM) on a stochastic optical field with Gaussian statistics, showing that in this case the spectrum is broadened. However, the laser light does not have the statistical character of a Gaussian random process, and a more general approach is required for modeling the experimental results.
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