Compression of femtosecond solitons in 8m of tapered hollow-core photonic bandgap fiber

Frédéric Gérôme (1) , K. Cook (2) , A.K. George , W. Wadsworth (2) , J.C Knight (2)

1 PHOTONIQUE
2 University of Bath [Bath]

We report adiabatic soliton pulse compression in a tapered hollow-core photonic bandgap fiber. We compress 195 fs input pulses at 800 nm wavelength to less than 100 fs after propagation through 8 m of fiber, at 50 nJ pulse energies.

Frédéric Gérôme, K. Cook, A.K. George, W. Wadsworth, J.C Knight. Compression of femtosecond solitons in 8m of tapered hollow-core photonic bandgap fiber. In: 20th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro Optics Society, Oct 2007, Lake Buena Vista - Floride, United States. pp.WQ 4, ⟨10.1109/LEOS.2007.4382527⟩. ⟨hal-00717730⟩