Nonlinear picosecond-pulse propagation through optical fibers with positive group velocity dispersion
Date
1981-09-28Author
Nakatsuka, Hiroki
Grischkowsky, D.
Balant, A. C.
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The predictions of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation have been tested by passing 5.5-psec optical pulses through a 70-m single-mode optical fiber. With use of a precise cross correlation technique based on pulse compression, dramatic reshaping of the input pulses into flat-topped, frequency-broadened, and positively chirped 20-psec output pulses with self-steepened fall times of less than 2 psec was observed. The observations are in good agreement with theory.
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Nakatsuka, H., Grischkowsky, D., & Balant, A. C. (1981). Nonlinear picosecond-pulse propagation through optical fibers with positive group velocity dispersion. Physical Review Letters, 47(13), 910-913. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.47.910