Nonlinear Picosecond-Pulse Propagation through Optical Fibers with Positive Group Velocity Dispersion
- 28 September 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 47 (13) , 910-913
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.47.910
Abstract
The predictions of the nonlinear Schrödinger 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.Keywords
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