title: Shortening pulses from subnanosecond to picosecond by means of ultrafast temporal filtering in an optical fiber.
abstract: Taking advantage of the combination of stimulated Raman scattering and nonlinear polarization rotation in a single-mode optical fiber, a temporal reshaping of subnanosecond pulses is achieved by means of both spectral and polarization filtering. Shortening of 650 ps down to 43 ps temporally and spectrally stable pulses is experimentally obtained. Numerical simulations supporting this new temporal filtering are presented.
authors.affiliation: Xlim REsearch Institute, UMR CNRS 6172, Limoges, France. doutre@xlim.fr
authors.forename: Florent
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Doutre
authors.forename: Dominique
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pagnoux
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Couderc
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tonello
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jalocha
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D008027:Light; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D055100:Optical Fibers; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman / Q000295:instrumentation*