DocumentCode
842804
Title
Significant modification of femtosecond soliton interaction in gain medium by small subpulses
Author
Kurokawa, Kaneyuki ; Kubota, Hajime ; Nakazawa, Masataka
Author_Institution
NTT Telecommun. Field Syst. R&D Centre, Ibaraki, Japan
Volume
28
Issue
25
fYear
1992
Firstpage
2334
Lastpage
2336
Abstract
Fluctuations in soliton amplitude cause significant changes in femtosecond soliton-soliton interaction as a result of the soliton self-frequency shift. It is shown that a small subpulse which is coherently added to or subtracted from a soliton pulse greatly modifies the soliton-soliton interaction in a distributed erbium-doped fibre amplifier. This effect is significantly enhanced by the optical gain.
Keywords
erbium; fibre lasers; nonlinear optics; optical solitons; Er doped optical fibre; distributed fibre amplifiers; femtosecond soliton interaction; gain medium; optical gain; self-frequency shift; soliton-soliton interaction; subpulses;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:19921504
Filename
191861
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