(Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2006) Demircan, Ayhan; Kroh, Marcel; Bandelow, Uwe; Hüttl, Bernd; Weber, Hans-Georg
Broad-band continua at gigahertz rates generated in high-nonlinear
dispersion flattened fibers in the normal dispersion regime near the
zero-dispersion wavelength can be used for a subsequent efficient pulse
compression, leading to stable high-repetition-rate trains of femtosecond
pulses. We show experimentally and theoretically that third-order dispersion
defines a critical power, where beyond further compression is inhibited. This
fundamental limit is caused by a pulse-breakup.
