Pulse compression technique combines the high energy characteristic of a longer pulse width with the high resolution characteristic of a narrower pulse width. The major aspects that are considered for a pulse compression technique are signal to sidelobe ratio (SSR), noise and Doppler shift performances. The traditional algorithms like autocorrelation function (ACF), recursive least square (RLS)...

For many high field physics studies a laser source capable of producing intensities of 1017 W/cm 2 or greater is necessary. Ideally, such a laser source should be compact and simple so that it is at once reliable and manageable. In order to make the laser as compact as possible it is extremely desirable to use solidstate amplifier materials because of their energy storage capability. If this en...

Solitons are nonlinear waves present in diverse physical systems including plasmas, water surfaces and optics. In silicon, the presence of two photon absorption and accompanying free carriers strongly perturb the canonical dynamics of optical solitons. Here we report the first experimental demonstration of soliton-effect pulse compression of picosecond pulses in silicon, despite two photon abso...

Over the past decade intense laser fields with a single-cycle duration and even shorter, subcycle multicolour field transients have been generated and applied to drive attosecond phenomena in strong-field physics. Because of their extensive bandwidth, single-cycle fields cannot be emitted or amplified by laser sources directly and, as a rule, are produced by external pulse compression-a combina...

In this paper, we numerically and experimentally study two methods to generate 20GHz pulse trains at 1550 nm from a dual-frequency beat-signal. The first method is based on the multiple four-wave mixing temporal compression occuring in the anomalous dispersion regime of a standard optical fiber (SMF). In the second original method, the initial sinusoidal signal is first converted into a parabol...

We report numerical and experimental studies of dissipative-soliton-resonance (DSR) in a fiber laser with a nonlinear optical loop mirror. The DSR pulse presents temporally a flat-top profile and a clamped peak power. Its spectrum has a rectangle profile with characteristic steep edges. It shows a unique behavior as pulse energy increases: The rectangle part of the spectrum is unchanged while t...

A chip-based temporal compressor for shortening the duration of optical pulses has been developed by scientists in Japan. The scientists at Yokohama National University made their compressor from a silicon photonic crystal waveguide. Co-propagating slow light is used as a control pulse and serves to induce carrier plasma dispersion in the waveguide through two-photon absorption. The efficiency ...

Femtosecond pulses are used in many fields due to their specificities of extreme short duration, ultra high peak power or large spectral bandwidth. Since the early days of the laser in the 60s, there has been a continous quest to generate shorter and or higher peak power pulses. Reliable generation of pulses below 100fs occurred the first time in 1981 with the invention of the colliding pulse m...