Nonlinear, discrete-continuous propagation of ultrashort pulses in 2-dimensional, periodic fibre arrays

Author

Eilenberger, F. ; Pertsch, T. ; Nolte, S. ; Lederer, F. ; Röpke, U. ; Kobelke, J. ; Schuster, K. ; Bartelt, H. ; Tünnermann, A.

Author_Institution

Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena, Jena

fYear

2008

fDate

7-10 July 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We investigate the propagation of ultrashort pulses in 2D fibre arrays both numerically and experimentally. The nonlinearity suppresses discrete diffraction and dispersion, leading to spatiotemporal contraction, as well as pulse breaking and supercontinuum (SC) generation.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; light diffraction; optical fibre dispersion; optical solitons; spatiotemporal phenomena; supercontinuum generation; 2-dimensional periodic fibre arrays; discrete-continuous pulse propagation; optical diffraction; optical dispersion; pulse breaking; spatiotemporal contraction; supercontinuum generation; temporal soliton; ultrashort pulses; Diffraction; Dispersion; Optical arrays; Optical propagation; Photonics; Pulse compression methods; Solitons; Space vector pulse width modulation; Spatiotemporal phenomena; Surface fitting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference, 2008 and the 2008 Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology. OECC/ACOFT 2008. Joint conference of the

Conference_Location

Sydney

Print_ISBN

978-0-85825-807-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-85825-807-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OECCACOFT.2008.4610496

Filename

4610496