Abstract
Typical pulse compression experiments reduce the duration of an optical pulse by passing it first through a single-mode fiber and then a grating-pair compressor. The Ideal grating-pair compressor is adjusted so that a pulse passing through it encounters a phase ϕc(ω) which exactly cancels the phase of the pulse emerging from the fiber ϕ(ω) thereby maximizing the peak intensity of the pulse.1 Usually, ϕc(ω) is well approximated by a quadratic function for grating pairs1 or Gires-Tournois interferometers (GTIs).2 However, at high-power levels or very short-pulse durations, the pulse bandwidth is large enough that cubic-order dispersion and shock-effect terms in fiber propa-gation3 and the cubic-phase term of the grating- pair compressor4 become important Nonlinear chirping of the optical pulse has been shown for the former case.3
© 1987 Optical Society of America
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