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Soliton compression in short lengths of microstructured fibres

Soliton compression in short lengths of microstructured fibres
Soliton compression in short lengths of microstructured fibres
Compression of soliton pulses propagating in optical fibers with decreasing dispersion is a well-established technique. Very recently, we have demonstrated the same effect with femtosecond pulses in dispersion-decreasing microstructured holey fibres.(1) With such short pulses and because of the small core size and thus high nonlinearity possible within holey fibres, compression already occurs at very low soliton energies and over short lengths of fibre. Short fibre lengths are also required because of higher propagation losses in holey fibres which counteract compression. Here we investigate theoretically the minimum fibre length necessary to achieve high compression factors.
Horak, P.
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Tse, M.L.V.
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Poletti, F.
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Richardson, D.J.
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Tse, M.L.V.
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Poletti, F.
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Richardson, D.J.
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Horak, P., Tse, M.L.V., Poletti, F. and Richardson, D.J. (2007) Soliton compression in short lengths of microstructured fibres. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)-Europe/International Quantum Electronics Conference (IQEC) 2007, , Munich, Germany. 17 - 22 Jun 2007. 1 pp .

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Compression of soliton pulses propagating in optical fibers with decreasing dispersion is a well-established technique. Very recently, we have demonstrated the same effect with femtosecond pulses in dispersion-decreasing microstructured holey fibres.(1) With such short pulses and because of the small core size and thus high nonlinearity possible within holey fibres, compression already occurs at very low soliton energies and over short lengths of fibre. Short fibre lengths are also required because of higher propagation losses in holey fibres which counteract compression. Here we investigate theoretically the minimum fibre length necessary to achieve high compression factors.

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Published date: June 2007
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Venue - Dates: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)-Europe/International Quantum Electronics Conference (IQEC) 2007, , Munich, Germany, 2007-06-17 - 2007-06-22

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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/47822
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ORCID for P. Horak: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-8710-8764
ORCID for F. Poletti: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1000-3083
ORCID for D.J. Richardson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7751-1058

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Date deposited: 10 Aug 2007
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:53

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Author: P. Horak ORCID iD
Author: M.L.V. Tse
Author: F. Poletti ORCID iD
Author: D.J. Richardson ORCID iD

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