Femtosecond pulse delivery through single-mode optical fiber with adaptive pulse shaping

Author

Omenetto, F.G. ; Moores, M.D. ; Luce, B.P. ; Reitze, D.H. ; Taylor, A.J.

Author_Institution

Div. of Mater. Sci. & Technol., Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

11-11 May 2001

Firstpage

234

Lastpage

235

Abstract

Summary form only given. Nonlinear effects present fundamental obstacles for the propagation of femtosecond pulses of detectable energy in single-mode optical fibers, inducing severe distortion even after a very short propagation distance. These effects are extremely hard to defeat or even predict. Adaptive pulse shaping can overcome these limitations by synthesizing pulses that are self-correcting for higher order nonlinear effects when launched in the fiber.

Keywords

adaptive optics; high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; optical fibres; optical pulse shaping; adaptive pulse shaping; femtosecond pulse delivery; higher order nonlinear effects; nonlinear effects; self-correcting; severe distortion; single mode optical fiber; very short propagation distance; Nonlinear distortion; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical propagation; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pulses; Pulse measurements; Pulse modulation; Pulse shaping methods; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-662-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2001.947748

Filename

947748