Pulse propagation in inhomogeneous optical fibers

Technical Report · Thu Jun 13 04:00:00 EDT 1991

OSTI ID:5635071

Menyuk, C R

This year, like last, we have participated in several of the most exciting advances in photonics technology. The investment that we have made in developing codes to study solid state devices has reached fruition with several publications submitted or in progress. Our work on solid state device simulations has focused on two problems, both of which have been posed to us by our experimental collaborators at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The first is to determine the influence which geometric effects have on propagation in GaAs/AlGaAs ridge waveguides with a quantum well layer. During the past year, our work on optical fiber switching has been extraordinarily fruitful, leading to six joint publications with scientists at AT T Bell Laboratories and numerous conference presentations. Our work on randomly birefringence in optical communication fibers has borne significant fruit this year. Dr. Wai and his collaborators have written two papers which describe the evolution of solitons in optical fibers. 21 refs.

• Research Organization: Maryland Univ., Baltimore, MD (USA). Dept. of Electrical Engineering
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: FG05-89ER14090
• OSTI ID: 5635071
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/14090-2; ON: DE91014356
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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