title: Optical pulse compression in dispersion decreasing photonic crystal fiber.
abstract: 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.
authors: J C
authors: JC
authors: Travers
authors: J M
authors: JM
authors: Stone
authors: A B
authors: AB
authors: Rulkov
authors: B A
authors: BA
authors: Cumberland
authors: A K
authors: AK
authors: George
authors: S V
authors: SV
authors: Popov
authors: J C
authors: JC
authors: Knight
authors: J R
authors: JR
authors: Taylor