Experimental study of the evolution of chirped soliton pulses in single mode optical fibres

Abstract The evolution of chirped soliton pulses relaunched into single mode fibres in the region of anomalous dispersion has been examined experimentally under conditions where the bandwidth of the launched soliton pulse was up to seven times that of the transform limit. After relaunch, the soliton rapidly broadened approaching the condition where further broadening was solely due to transmission losses. The results are in good qualitative agreement with recent theoretical predictions.

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