Soliton pulse delivery and compression using hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers

Frédéric Gérôme (1) , J.C Knight (2) , J. Clowes , W. Wadsworth (2)

1 PHOTONIQUE
2 University of Bath [Bath]

We report applications of hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers for ultrashort pulse delivery and compression. Two effects have been investigated: evolution of strongly chirped input pulses into ultrashort solitons, and adiabatic pulse compression using tapered fibers.

Frédéric Gérôme, J.C Knight, J. Clowes, W. Wadsworth. Soliton pulse delivery and compression using hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers. Nonlinear Photonics conference, Sep 2007, Québec, Canada. pp.NThC1. ⟨hal-00717738⟩