INVESTIGATION OF FIBER GRATING-BASED PERFORMANCE LIMITS IN PULSE STRETCHING AND RECOMPRESSION SCHEMES USING BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTION FROM ALINEARLY CHIRPED FIBER GRATING

We demonstrate the controlled stretching and recompression of ultrasho rt optical pulses using bidirectional reflection from both ends of a s ingle linearly chirped fiber grating, We identify operating regimes fo r minimal pulse distortion due to the phase and filtering responses of a simple linear grating and experimentally demonstrate complete pulse reconstruction.