Intermediate asymptotic evolution and photonic bandgap fibre compression of optical similaritons around 1550 nm

Author

Billet, C. ; Dudley, J.M. ; Joly, N. ; Knight, J.C. ; Russell, P. St J

Author_Institution

Inst. FEMTO-ST, Univ. de Franche-Comte, Besancon

fYear

2005

fDate

17-17 June 2005

Firstpage

530

Lastpage

530

Abstract

In this paper, we report the first complete characterization of the self-similar generation of optical similaritons, using high dynamic range ultrashort pulse metrology to study the intermediate asymptotic evolution towards the parabolic pulse profile, and to optimize additional propagation in highly-nonlinear fiber and compression to the sub-100 fs regime in hollow-core bandgap-guiding photonic crystal fiber (PCF). Our similariton amplifier used normally dispersive (Dap-40 ps/nm-km) Er³⁺ fiber with a 140 mW 1480 nm pump and 80 pJ, 1.1 ps sech² input pulses at 1550 nm

Keywords

optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre dispersion; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; photonic band gap; photonic crystals; 140 mW; 1480 nm; 1550 nm; 80 pJ; Er³⁺; PCF; highly-nonlinear fiber propagation; hollow-core bandgap-guiding photonic crystal fiber; intermediate asymptotic evolution; normally dispersive fiber; optical similariton compression; parabolic pulse profile; photonic bandgap fibre; self-similar generation; ultrashort pulse metrology; Character generation; Dynamic range; Metrology; Optical propagation; Optical pulse generation; Optical pumping; Photonic bandgap fibers; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2005. CLEO/Europe. 2005 Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8974-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1568308

Filename

1568308