title: Nonlinear pulse reflections from chirped fiber gratings.
abstract: We study the nonlinear evolution of optical pulses reflected from a chirped fiber grating experimentally and with numerical simulations. Over a broad range of grating parameters the nonlinearly reflected pulse splits into a pair of pulses in the range of incident pulse intensities where the transmitted pulse is a single narrowed pulse evolving into a fundamental soliton.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Slusher
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Eggleton
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Strasser
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: de Sterke