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.
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