Pulse compression and super-continuum generation using cascaded higher-order solitons

Non-adiabatic pulse compression of cascaded higher-order optical solitons is investigated. We demonstrate high degree compression of pulses with soliton order N=2, 3, 4 and 5 in two or three nonlinear fibers with different second-order dispersion coefficients. Each fiber length is shorter than half of its soliton period. This compression technique has significant advantages over the widely reported adiabatic and higher-order soliton compression.