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Wave-Breaking Extended Coherent Fiber Supercontinuum Pulse Compression

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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.

© 2012 Optical Society of America

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