Parabolic pulse evolution in normally dispersive fiber amplifiers preceding the similariton formation regime

Author

Finot, Christophe ; Parmigiani, Francesca ; Petropoulos, Periklis ; Richardson, David J.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We show analytically and numerically that parabolic pulses and similaritons are not always synonyms and that a self-phase modulation amplification regime precedes the self-similar evolution. Properties of the recompressed pulses after SPM amplification are investigated.

Keywords

laser beams; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pulse compression; self-phase modulation; normally dispersive fiber amplifiers; parabolic pulse evolution; pulse recompression; self-phase modulation; self-similar evolution; similariton formation regime; Chirp; Dispersion; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Pulse modulation; Pulse shaping methods; Scanning probe microscopy; Space vector pulse width modulation; (060.5530) Pulse propagation and solitons; (190.4370) Nonlinear optics fibers; (320.5520) Pulse compression;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628078

Filename

4628078