• DocumentCode
    3009390
  • Title

    Soliton Compression to Few-cycle Pulses Using Quadratic Nonlinear Photonic Crystal Fibers: A Design Study

  • Author

    Bache, Morten ; Moses, Jeffrey ; Lægsgaard, Jesper ; Bang, Ole ; Wise, Frank

  • Author_Institution
    Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    6-11 May 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We show theoretically that high-quality soliton compression from ~500 fs to ~10 fs is possible in poled silica photonic crystal fibers using cascaded chi(2) : chi(2) nonlinearities. A moderate group-velocity mismatch optimizes the compression.
  • Keywords
    optical design techniques; optical fibres; optical materials; optical pulse compression; optical solitons; optimisation; photonic crystals; silicon compounds; cascaded nonlinearity; group-velocity mismatch; poled silica PCF; quadratic nonlinear photonic crystal fiber; soliton compression; Crystalline materials; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear equations; Optical design; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulses; Optical solitons; Photonic crystal fibers; Pulse compression methods; Silicon compounds;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-834-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452852
  • Filename
    4452852