Title :
Compact, pedestal-free femtosecond pulse compression employing highly nonlinear chalcogenide fiber
Author :
Fu, L.B. ; Fuerbach, A. ; Littler, I.C.M. ; Eggleton, B.J.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Phys., Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
Abstract :
We demonstrate efficient compression of low-power 6 ps pulses down to 420 fs pedestal free pulses at 1.5 mum in an all-fiber scheme employing only 4 meters of As2Se3 fiber and a tailored chirped fiber Bragg grating.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; arsenic compounds; chalcogenide glasses; high-speed optical techniques; optical Kerr effect; optical fibre dispersion; optical glass; optical pulse compression; As2Se3; group velocity dispersion; high Kerr nonlinearity; nonlinear chalcogenide fiber; pedestal-free femtosecond pulse compression; tailored chirped fiber Bragg grating; wavelength 1.5 mum; Bragg gratings; Chirp; Fiber gratings; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse compression; Optical pulses; Optical signal processing; Pulse compression methods; Ultrafast optics; (320.0320) Ultrafast optics; (320.5520) Pulse compression; (320.7140) Ultrafast processes in fibers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Long Beach, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627923
