Solitons in Hollow Core Photonic Crystal Fiber: Engineering Nonlinearity and Compressing Pulses

Author

Welch, Matthew G. ; Cook, Kevin ; Correa, Rodrigo Amezcua ; Gérôme, Frédéric ; Wadsworth, William J. ; Gorbach, Andrey V. ; Skryabin, Dmitry V. ; Knight, Jonathan C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Bath, Bath

Volume

27

Issue

11

fYear

2009

fDate

6/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1644

Lastpage

1652

Abstract

We have demonstrated nonlinear propagation in a 3-cell hollow core photonic crystal fiber. The reduced core size increases the nonlinear coefficient of the guided mode. However, the reduction in the expected soliton energy is small (a factor of approximately 2) as the dispersion of this fiber is also increased by the smaller core. We also demonstrate soliton compression using a 35 m 7-cell tapered fiber, compressing picosecond input pulses by over an order of magnitude.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; holey fibres; optical fibre dispersion; optical materials; optical pulse compression; optical solitons; photonic crystals; fiber dispersion; hollow core photonic crystal fiber; nonlinear propagation; optical pulse compression; optical solitons; picosecond input pulses; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical propagation; Optical pulses; Optical solitons; Photonic band gap; Photonic crystal fibers; Physics; Pulse compression methods; Solids; Optical fibers; optical propagation in nonlinear media; optical pulse compression; optical solitons;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2009.2019731

Filename

5037987