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Abstract: We review pulse compression technique based on “comb-like profiled fiber (CPF)”, com-
prised of alternate concatenations of highly nonlinear fiber and anomalous-dispersion fiber. We show
CPF has truly practical and flexible features for optical pulse compression.
c 2007 Optical Society of America
OCIS codes: (060.5530) Pulse propagation and solitons; (060.4370) Nonlinear optics, fibers;
1. Introduction
Optical pulse compression is an important technique to generate a short optical pulse used in telecom and non-telecom
fields. Especially, pulse compression scheme based on nonlinear fiber optics is a promising candidate for realizing
a practical and functional short optical pulse source [1]. We have developed low-dispersion-slope highly nonlinear
fibers (HNLFs) [2, 3] for various kinds of applications of ultra-fast optical signal processing, and we have also applied
HNLF to optical pulse compressor in the form of “comb-like profiled fiber (CPF)” [4–15], that is comprised of alternate
concatenations of HNLF and anomalous-dispersion fibers such as single-mode fiber (SMF).
In this paper, we summarize CPF technologies for optical pulse compression, where the features, design issues,
and recently reported experimental results are introduced.
One can see in Table 1 that pulse compression experiments were performed with wide variety of the conditions
such as the types of the input pulse sources, the repetition rates, the input and output widths, and the operational
wavelengths. In addition, the compression efficiencies are also widely different for each case. While highly efficient
but low-quality pulse compression are achieved with CPF having less step numbers [8, 13], high-quality but low-
efficiency compression are demonstrated with CPF having much step numbers [6, 11]. These facts indicate that CPF
can operate very flexibly, and we can optimize the design of a CPF for each specific condition of pulse compression.
Some results of wavelength-tunable pulse compression were reported [9–13], where we used low dispersion-slope
HNLF for all cases. Among them, use of low dispersion-slope anomalous-dispersion fiber was particularly effective for
expanding the operating conditions. In fact, we proposed dispersion-flattened CPF structure employing ZDS-NZDSF
instead of SMF, and we achieved 100 fs pulse generation with the tunable range of 80 nm [13].
Although the total length of a CPF depends on the specifications as a pulse compressor, it is in the order of
hundreds of meters in many cases shown in Table 1. One might be then afraid of the size of a module for CPF. For
the purpose of down-sizing, we developed a one-bobbin CPF module applying high-strength splicing and recoating
techniques to each of concatenating points between HNLF and SMF [15]. Figure 1 shows a conventional (left) and a
newly developed floppy-disk-sized one-bobbin CPF module (right). A CPF module can be practically small enough to
be used as a component in an apparatus that requires a pulse compression fiber.
4. Summary
We reviewed CPF technologies for optical pulse compression, where we showed that low dispersion-slope HNLF
played an important role to improve the characteristics of CPF as a practical and flexible pulse compressor.
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