Title :
Designing Tapered Holey Fibers for Soliton Compression
Author :
Tse, Ming-Leung V. ; Horak, Peter ; Poletti, Francesco ; Richardson, David J.
Abstract :
We investigate numerically the compression of femtosecond solitons at 1.55-mum wavelength propagating in holey fibers which exhibit simultaneously decreasing dispersion and effective mode area. We determine optimal values of holey fiber parameters and fiber lengths for soliton compression in the adiabatic and nonadiabatic regimes. Compression factors in excess of ten are found for fibers as short as a few meters.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; holey fibres; optical fibre dispersion; optical solitons; compression factors; dispersion; effective mode area; femtosecond solitons; fiber lengths; tapered holey fibers; wavelength 1.55 mum; Holey fibers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical propagation; Optical pulse compression; Optical pulses; Optical waveguides; Pulse compression methods; Solitons; Ultrafast optics; Fiber design and fabrication; microstructure optical fibers; pulse compression methods;
Journal_Title :
Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JQE.2007.910446
