Experimental Observation of Picosecond Pulse Narrowing and Solitons in Optical Fibers
Abstract
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 μm) of loss and large but negative group-velocity dispersion. At certain critical power levels, the observed behavior is characteristic of solitons.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- September 1980
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.45.1095
- Bibcode:
- 1980PhRvL..45.1095M
- Keywords:
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- Fiber Optics;
- Optical Fibers;
- Picosecond Pulses;
- Solitary Waves;
- Glass Fibers;
- Laser Modes;
- Pulse Duration;
- Optics;
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