论文信息 - Observation of pulse restoration at the soliton period in optical fibers.

Observation of pulse restoration at the soliton period in optical fibers.

Restoration in both shape and spectrum of a (train of) 6.4-psec optical pulses has been observed at the soliton period in a single-mode fiber. The source was an F(2)(+) color-center laser at 1.55microm, and the fiber was 1.3 km long, which was one soliton period for this pulse width and wavelength. As predicted by the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, pulse restoration occurs despite initial spectral broadening from self-phase modulation and temporal compression as a result of negative group-velocity dispersion acting on the chirped pulse.

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