• DocumentCode
    447885
  • Title

    Compression of megawatt optical pulses in a Xe-filled hollow-core photonic band-gap fiber

  • Author

    Ouzounov, Dimitre G. ; Caeta, A.L. ; Venkataraman, Natesan ; Gallagher, Michael T. ; Koch, Karl W.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Appl. & Eng. Phys., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    22-27 May 2005
  • Firstpage
    180
  • Abstract
    We used a hollow-core photonic band-gap fiber filled with Xe to perform soliton-compression and to generate higher-order solitons. We find that the large third-order dispersion limits the optimal compression ratio.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre dispersion; optical pulse compression; optical solitons; photonic band gap; xenon; Xe; higher-order soliton; megawatt optical pulse compression; optimal compression ratio; soliton-compression; third-order dispersion; xenon-filled hollow-core photonic band-gap fiber; Autocorrelation; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical scattering; Optical solitons; Photonic band gap; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-795-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2005.201718
  • Filename
    1572784