Effect of Third-order Dispersion of Birefringent Fiber on Pulse Transmission

The effect of thirdorder dispersion on pulse transmission is discussed. The coupled nonlinear Schrdinger equations characterizing the birefringent singlemode fibers is solved numerically with combined consideration on chromatic dispersion, including second and thirdorder dispersions, polarization mode dispersion (PMD) and nonlinearity. Various simulation results are presented.