Nonlinear pulse reflections from chirped fiber gratings.
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.
Slusher
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R
Eggleton
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B
Strasser
T
T
de Sterke
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