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The compression of optical pulses using self-phase-modulation and linearly chirped Bragg-gratings in fibers

1995; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Volume: 7; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/68.384520

1941-0174

John Williams, I. Bennion, L. Zhang,

Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics

We report the first demonstration of pulse compression in optical fiber using linearly chirped Bragg gratings as quadratic compressors for pulses spectrally broadened by self-phase modulation. With the system investigated an initial 2 ps, bandwidth limited pulse is compressed by a factor of >10. The experimental results are found to be in good agreement with analytical and numerical calculations. Such a system allows high quality compression of pulses in optical fiber for the first time. >