(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2006) Demircan, Ayhan; Bandelow, Uwe
We have detected a fundamental pulse-compression limit for
high-nonlinear fibers in the normal dispersion regime near the
zero-dispersion wavelength. The desired generation of a broadband continuum
by self-phase modulation is limited by already small amounts of third-order
dispersion, which results in pulse splitting above a critical pulse power. We
investigate the critical fiber length in dependence on pulse- and fiber
parameters.
