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Compression of femtosecond optical pulses
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In this paper, the authors describe the generation and measurement of optical pulses as short as 30 fs. The pulses are produced using self-phase modulation in a short 15 cm optical fiber followed by a grating compressor.Abstract:
We describe the generation and measurement of optical pulses as short as 30 fs. The pulses are produced using self‐phase modulation in a short 15‐cm optical fiber followed by a grating compressor.read more
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Experimental Observation of Picosecond Pulse Narrowing and Solitons in Optical Fibers
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported narrowing and splitting of 7-ps-duration pulses from a mode-locked color-center laser by a 700m-long, singlemode silica-glass fiber, at a wavelength (1.55 \ensuremath{mu}m) of loss and large but negative group-velocity dispersion.
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Optical pulse compression with diffraction gratings
TL;DR: In this paper, the theory of the diffraction grating pair was developed by expanding the frequency dependence of the phase shift as far as the quadratic frequency term, and the analogy between pulse compression and Fresnel diffraction was treated.
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Self-phase-modulation in silica optical fibers
Roger H. Stolen,Chinlon Lin +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report measurements of frequency broadening due to self-phase modulation (SPM) in optical fibers, using single-mode silica-core fibers and mode-locked argon-laser pulses.
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Generation of optical pulses shorter than 0.1 psec by colliding pulse mode locking
TL;DR: In this article, a novel passive mode-locking technique was proposed in which two synchronized counterpropagating pulses interact in a thin, saturable absorber to produce a short pulse.