NONLINEAR POWER LIMITS OF COMPRESSION BY OPTICAL FIBERS OF CHIRPED PULSES EMITTED BY DIODE-LASERS

Authors
BARTHELEMY A SHALABY M
Citation
A. Barthelemy et M. Shalaby, NONLINEAR POWER LIMITS OF COMPRESSION BY OPTICAL FIBERS OF CHIRPED PULSES EMITTED BY DIODE-LASERS, Electronics Letters, 29(6), 1993, pp. 533-535
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
Electronics Letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00135194
Volume
29
Issue
6
Year of publication
1993
Pages
533 - 535
Database
ISI
SICI code
0013-5194(1993)29:6<533:NPLOCB>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
The compression by singlemode optical fib- of chirped pulses delivered by gain or/and Q-switched diode lasers is limited at high powers by t he occurrence of selfphase modulation due to the Kerr effect. In the L etter, the intensity threshold above which the output pulses will be w idened and even distorted is determined. The reported curves provide t he user with a practical tool for the choice of the best fibre paramet ers in order to avoid these nonlinear effects.