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Experimental Observation of Picosecond Pulse Narrowing and Solitons in Optical Fibers

1980; American Physical Society; Volume: 45; Issue: 13 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physrevlett.45.1095

1092-0145

L. F. Mollenauer, R. H. Stolen, J. P. Gordon,

Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications

This paper reports narrowing and splitting of 7-ps-duration pulses from a mode-locked color-center laser by a 700-m-long, single-mode silica-glass fiber, at a wavelength (1.55 \ensuremath{\mu}m) of loss and large but negative group-velocity dispersion. At certain critical power levels, the observed behavior is characteristic of solitons.