Title :
Slow gap soliton propagation excited by microchip Q-switched pulses
Author :
Mok, Joe T. ; Tsoy, Eduard ; Littler, Ian C M ; De Sterke, C. Martijn ; Eggleton, Benjamin J.
Author_Institution :
ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Opt. Syst., Sydney Univ., NSW
Abstract :
We demonstrate slowly propagating gap solitons excited by microchip Q-switched laser pulses with kilowatts peak power in a 10 cm apodized fibre Bragg grating. Gap solitons propagating at 0.19 c/n are observed
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; Q-switching; microchip lasers; optical fibres; optical pulse generation; optical solitons; 10 cm; fibre Bragg grating; microchip Q-switched pulses; slow gap soliton propagation; Bragg gratings; Fiber gratings; Fiber lasers; Microchip lasers; Optical propagation; Optical pulses; Photonic band gap; Power lasers; Sampling methods; Solitons;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2005. LEOS 2005. The 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9217-5
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2005.1548094
