Soliton-self-frequency-shift effects and pulse compression in an anomalously dispersive high nonlinearity lead silicate holey fiber

We report the fabrication of a single-mode lead silicate glass holey fiber with anomalous dispersion and a record nonlinearity of /spl gamma/=640 W/sup -1/km/sup -1/ at 1550nm. We report what we believe to be the first soliton and pulse compression experiments in this new class of fibers.

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