Limits of fiber-grating optical pulse compression.
01 January 1987
It is shown that the fiber and grating-pair pulse compression technique has a theoretical limit, which for an input pulse width of 40 fs, is close to the experimentally-observed minimum compressed pulse width of 8 fs. It is also shown that this limit is a result of higher-order terms in the response of the grating-pair compressor and that these terms limit the usefulness of the compressor for canceling the effects of group velocity dispersion on the propagation of ultrashort optical pulses.