Wave-Breaking Extended Coherent Fiber Supercontinuum Pulse Compression
Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: Like surface water wave breaking, optical wave breaking (WB) is a phenomenon that occurs when an optical pulse propagates in a normally dispersive nonlinear fiber. It is often avoided in fiber continuum compression experiments by using lower coupling power or shorter fiber length, because the WB-extended continuum has higher-order spectral phase distortions that cannot be compensated by a quadratic compressor, a prism pair or a grating pair. This issue can be resolved when an ideal compressor such as a 4f pulse shaper is used. Linear and nonlinear chirps can be removed by arbitrary phase shaping toward transformlimited pulse compression.
Source: Optics and Photonics News
Authors: Yuan Liu, Haohua Tu, Stephen A. Boppart
Institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Language: English
Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: G3210179440, G6854890528
OpenAlex ID: W1970865726