DocumentCode
2103416
Title
Compression of Femtosecond Solitons in 8m of Tapered Hollow-Core Photonic Bandgap Fiber
Author
Gérôme, F. ; Cook, K. ; George, A. ; Wadsworth, W.J. ; Knight, J.C.
Author_Institution
Univ. of Bath, Bath
fYear
2007
fDate
21-25 Oct. 2007
Firstpage
556
Lastpage
557
Abstract
We report adiabatic soliton pulse compression in a tapered hollow-core photonic bandgap fiber. We compress 195 fs input pulses at 800 nm wavelength to less than 100 fs after propagation through 8 m of fiber, at 50 nJ pulse energies.
Keywords
optical fibres; optical pulse compression; optical solitons; photonic band gap; adiabatic soliton pulse compression; energy 50 nJ; fiber propagation; input pulses compression; pulse energies; size 8 m; tapered hollow-core photonic bandgap fiber; time 195 fs; wavelength 800 nm; Bandwidth; Optical pulses; Optical solitons; Photonic bandgap fibers; Physics; Preforms; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Space vector pulse width modulation; Ultrafast optics;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2007. LEOS 2007. The 20th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location
Lake Buena Vista, FL
ISSN
1092-8081
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-0925-9
Electronic_ISBN
1092-8081
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/LEOS.2007.4382527
Filename
4382527
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