Title : 
Pedestal free pulse compression in nonuniform fiber Bragg gratings
         
        
            Author : 
Senthilnathan, K. ; Wai, P.K.A. ; Nakkeeran, K.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Hong Kong Polytech. Univ., Hong Kong
         
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We present the compression of chirped Bragg solitary pulses near photonic band gap of nonlinear fiber Bragg gratings with exponentially decreasing dispersion. Compression factor of the proposed scheme is two times larger than adiabatic compression.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Bragg gratings; optical fibres; optical pulse compression; chirped Bragg solitary pulse; near photonic band gap; nonlinear fiber Bragg grating; nonuniform fiber Bragg gratings; pedestal free pulse compression; Pulse compression methods;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2007. OFC/NFOEC 2007. Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Anaheim, CA
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
1-55752-831-4
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/OFC.2007.4348403