title: Analysis and design of nonlinear fiber Bragg gratings and their application for optical compression of reflected pulses.
abstract: We demonstrate a novel split-step solution for analyzing nonlinear fiber Bragg gratings. The solution is used for designing nonlinear fiber Bragg gratings with a low reflectivity. The structure of the grating is designed according to the profiles of the incident and reflected pulses. We demonstrate our method for nonlinear compression of a pulse reflected from a fiber Bragg grating. The method allows us to obtain compressed pulses with a very low wing intensity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. eeamir@tx.technion.ac.il
authors.forename: Amir
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rosenthal
authors.forename: Moshe
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Horowitz