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

J A R Williams; I Bennion; Lin Zhang

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

J A R Williams^*, I Bennion, Lin Zhang

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Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (AiPT)

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	491-493
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	7
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/68.384520
Publication status	Published - May 1995

Keywords

chirp modulation
diffraction gratings
high-speed optical techniques
optical fibres
optical modulation
phase modulation

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