Experimental Observation of Picosecond Pulse Narrowing and Solitons in Optical Fibers

L. F. Mollenauer, R. H. Stolen, and J. P. Gordon
Phys. Rev. Lett. 45, 1095 – Published 29 September 1980
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Abstract

This paper reports narrowing and splitting of 7-ps-duration pulses from a mode-locked color-center laser by a 700-m-long, single-mode silica-glass fiber, at a wavelength (1.55 μm) of loss and large but negative group-velocity dispersion. At certain critical power levels, the observed behavior is characteristic of solitons.

  • Received 17 July 1980

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.45.1095

©1980 American Physical Society

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L. F. Mollenauer, R. H. Stolen, and J. P. Gordon

  • Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., Holmdel, New Jersey 07733

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Vol. 45, Iss. 13 — 29 September 1980

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