Nonlinear pulse combining and pulse compression in multi-core fibers

A.M. Rubenchik, I.S. Chekhovskoy, M.P. Fedoruk, O.V. Shtyrina, S. K. Turitsyn

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Abstract

We demonstrate light pulse combining and pulse compression using a continuous-discrete nonlinear system implemented in a multi-core fiber (MCF). It is shown that the pulses initially injected into all of the cores of a ring MCF are combined by nonlinearity into a small number of cores with simultaneous pulse compression. We demonstrate the combining of 77% of the energy into one core with pulse compression over 14× in a 20-core MCF. We also demonstrate that a suggested scheme is insensitive to the phase perturbations. Nonlinear spatio-temporal pulse manipulation in multi-core fibers can be exploited for various applications, including pulse compression, switching, and combining.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)721-724
Number of pages4
JournalOptics Letters
Volume40
Issue number5
Early online date17 Feb 2015
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Mar 2015

Bibliographical note

Funding: Russian Science Foundation (Grant No. 14-21-00110) and by the European Office of Aerospace Research and Development (Grant No. FA9550-14-1-0305) (work of S.K.T).

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