title: Experimental demonstration of similariton pulse compression in a comblike dispersion-decreasing fiber amplifier.
abstract: Self-similar propagation of linearly chirped hyperbolic-secant pulses in a comblike decreasing-dispersion fiber amplifier has been observed experimentally for the first time to our knowledge. The scheme takes advantage of an exact solution of the generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation with distributed coefficients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Auckland, New Zealand. d.mechin@auckland.ac.nz
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Méchin
authors.forename: Sung-Hoon
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Im
authors.forename: Vladimir I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Kruglov
authors.forename: John D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Harvey