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Optical Pulse Compression Based on Enhanced Frequency Chirping

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Physics of New Laser Sources

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Through numerical simulations, we show that, under relatively general conditions, passage of an intense picosecond pulse through a single-mode optical fiber can cause the pulse to become strongly frequency broadened with a positive chirp (linear frequency sweep) describing essentially all of the energy of the output pulse. Also, because the optical fiber supports only a single transverse mode, the entire output beam profile has the same frequency modulation. These two features allow for unprecedented optical pulse compression.

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  1. IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA

    D. Grischkowsky & A. C. Balant

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  1. Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA

    Neal B. Abraham

  2. University of Florence and National Institute of Optics, Florence, Italy

    F. T. Arecchi

  3. Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, Massachusetts, USA

    Aram Mooradian

  4. C.I.S.E. (Center of Information, Studies and Experiments), Segrate, Milan, Italy

    Alberto Sona

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Grischkowsky, D., Balant, A.C. (1982). Optical Pulse Compression Based on Enhanced Frequency Chirping. In: Abraham, N.B., Arecchi, F.T., Mooradian, A., Sona, A. (eds) Physics of New Laser Sources. NATO ASI Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6187-0_9

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