title: Measurement of pulse amplitude and phase using cross-phase modulation in microstructure fiber.
abstract: Cross-phase modulation in a highly nonlinear microstructure optical fiber with low dispersion and high birefringence is used for the measurement of the pulse amplitude and phase of picosecond pulses by frequency-resolved optical gating. An alignment-free configuration including an optical amplifier is proposed and experimentally tested. The simulated annealing method is used for retrieving the amplitude and phase from cross-phase modulation spectrograms. It takes into account the birefringence of the measurement fiber and the resolution of the optical spectrum analyzer.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Chaberská 57, 182 51 Praha 8, Czech Republic. honzatko@ure.cas.cz
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Honzatko
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kanka
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Vrany