Title :
Designing Dispersion- and Mode-Area-Decreasing Holey Fibers for Soliton Compression
Author :
Tse, M.L.V. ; Horak, P. ; Poletti, F. ; Richardson, D.J.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Southampton, Southampton
Abstract :
We investigate numerically the adiabatic compression of solitons at 1.55 mum in holey fibers which exhibit simultaneously decreasing dispersion and effective mode area. Compression factors >10 are achieved for optimum fiber parameters.
Keywords :
holey fibres; optical fibre dispersion; optical solitons; adiabatic compression; compression factors; dispersion-area-decreasing holey fibers; mode-area-decreasing holey fibers; optimum fiber parameters; soliton compression; wavelength 1.55 mum; Geometry; Holey fibers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber theory; Optical pulse compression; Optical pulses; Pulse compression methods; Solitons; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-834-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453665
