gnlse-python

by Paweł Redman, published on

gnlse-python is an open-source program for simulating non-linear light propagation in optical fibers, based on MATLAB scripts from [1]. It’s described in detail in this article [2], so I won’t write about the physics here.

My main contribution was the initial MATLAB-to-Python rewrite and getting SciPy’s integrator to converge. I made sure this became a proper project with a decent layout and documentation, not a bag of random scripts.

Bibliography

  • [1] J. M. Dudley, G. Genty, and S. Coen, “Supercontinuum Generation in Optical Fibers,” Reviews of Modern Physics, vol. 78, no. 4, pp. 1135–1184, 2006, doi: 10.1103/RevModPhys.78.1135.
  • [2] P. Redman, M. Zatorska, A. Pawłowski, D. Szulc, S. Majchrowska, and K. Tarnowski, “gnlse-python: Open Source Software to Simulate Nonlinear Light Propagation in Optical Fibers,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.00298, 2021, doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2110.00298.