SOLITON PULSE-COMPRESSION IN DISPERSION-DECREASING FIBER

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作者
CHERNIKOV, SV [1 ]
DIANOV, EM [1 ]
RICHARDSON, DJ [1 ]
PAYNE, DN [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV SOUTHAMPTON,OPTOELECTR RES CTR,SOUTHAMPTON SO9 5NH,HANTS,ENGLAND
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10.1364/OL.18.000476
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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We investigate the adiabatic compression of picosecond and subpicosecond soliton pulses from all-fiber, passively mode-locked, erbium-doped fiber soliton lasers operating at 1550 nm in dispersion-decreasing fibers (DDF's). High-quality soliton compression from 630 down to 115 fs in a 100-m DDF and from 3.5 down to 230 fs in a 1.6-km DDF is obtained. The effects of third-order dispersion and Raman self-scattering on the compression process are observed and discussed.
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