Everything about Self-phase modulation

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Self-phase modulationA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: A self-biased non-reciprocal magnetic metasurface for bidirectional phase modulationInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Operations ManagementThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Self-phase-modulation in silica optical fibersCited 820 times
5. Go sideways: Nonlinear Schrödinger equationA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Second-harmonic generationA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Self-phase-modulation in silica optical fibers

  R. H. Stolen, Chinlon Lin · 1978 · Physical Review A · 820 citations

• Mode locking with cross-phase and self-phase modulation

  M. Hofer, M. E. Fermann, F. Haberl · 1991 · Optics Letters · 309 citations

• Self-phase modulation in long-geometry optical waveguides

  N. Tzoar, M. Jain · 1981 · Physical Review A · 260 citations

• Self-phase modulation in chirped-pulse amplification

  M. D. Perry, T. Ditmire, B. C. Stuart · 1994 · Optics Letters · 146 citations

• Broadband spatial self-phase modulation of black phosphorous

  Jingdi Zhang, Xuefeng Yu, Weijia Han · 2016 · Optics Letters · 133 citations

• Self-steepening of ultrashort optical pulses without self-phase-modulation

  Jeffrey Moses, Boris A. Malomed, Frank W. Wise · 2007 · Physical Review A · 132 citations

• Self-phase-modulation induced spectral broadening in silicon waveguides

  Ozdal Boyraz, Tejaswi Indukuri, Bahram Jalali · 2004 · Optics Express · 128 citations

• THERMALLY SELF-INDUCED PHASE MODULATION OF LASER BEAMS

  F. W. Dabby, T. K. Gustafson, J. R. Whinnery · 1970 · Applied Physics Letters · 114 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• A self-biased non-reciprocal magnetic metasurface for bidirectional phase modulation

  Weihao Yang, Jun Qin, Jiawei Long · 2023 · Nature Electronics · 82 citations

• Highly Dispersive Optical Solitons with Four Forms of Self-Phase Modulation

  Ahmed M. Elsherbeny, Ahmed H. Arnous, Anjan Biswas · 2023 · Universe · 22 citations

• Chirped gap solitons with Kudryashov’s law of self-phase modulation having dispersive reflectivity

  Khalil S. Al-Ghafri, Mani Sankar, Edamana V. Krishnan · 2023 · Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications · 22 citations

• All-optical modulation and photonic diode based on spatial self-phase modulation in porphyrin–napthalimide molecules

  Sudhanshu Kumar Nayak, Md Soif Ahmed, Rahul Murali · 2024 · Journal of Materials Chemistry C · 18 citations

• Self-phase modulation and inter-polarization cross-phase modulation mitigation in single-channel DP-16QAM coherent PON employing 4D clustering

  Camila Costa, Lucio Borges, Rafael A. Penchel · 2023 · Optical Fiber Technology · 17 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Operations ManagementRoberta S. Russell, Bernard Taylor · 1998
• The Supercontinuum Laser SourceRobert R. Alfano · 1989
• Lipoic acidMulchand S. Patel, Lester Packer · 2008
• 📕Power electronic convertersEric Monmasson · 2011
• Treaty Occupationay ToxicologySuelen Queiroz · 2010
• Criminal conduct & substance abuse treatmentKenneth W. Wanberg, Harvey B. Milkman · 1998
• Aperiodic CrystalsSiegbert Schmid · 2013
• NanosystemsK. Eric Drexler · 1992

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