Optical pulse compression in dispersion decreasing photonic crystal fiber.
Improvements to tapered photonic crystal fiber (PCF) fabrication have allowed us to make up to 50 m long PCF tapers with loss as low as 30 dB/km. We discuss the design constraints for tapered PCFs used for adiabatic soliton compression and demonstrate over 15 times compression of pulses from over 830 fs to 55 fs duration at a wavelength of 1.06 lm, an order of magnitude improvement over previous results.
Travers
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Stone
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Rulkov
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Cumberland
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George
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Popov
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Knight
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Taylor
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