Compact, pedestal-free femtosecond pulse compression employing highly nonlinear chalcogenide fiber

Author

Fu, L.B. ; Fuerbach, A. ; Littler, I.C.M. ; Eggleton, B.J.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Phys., Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We demonstrate efficient compression of low-power 6 ps pulses down to 420 fs pedestal free pulses at 1.5 mum in an all-fiber scheme employing only 4 meters of As₂Se₃ fiber and a tailored chirped fiber Bragg grating.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; arsenic compounds; chalcogenide glasses; high-speed optical techniques; optical Kerr effect; optical fibre dispersion; optical glass; optical pulse compression; As₂Se₃; group velocity dispersion; high Kerr nonlinearity; nonlinear chalcogenide fiber; pedestal-free femtosecond pulse compression; tailored chirped fiber Bragg grating; wavelength 1.5 mum; Bragg gratings; Chirp; Fiber gratings; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse compression; Optical pulses; Optical signal processing; Pulse compression methods; Ultrafast optics; (320.0320) Ultrafast optics; (320.5520) Pulse compression; (320.7140) Ultrafast processes in fibers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627923

Filename

4627923