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Nonlinear Fiber Optics - 4 ed. Agrawal

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4.2. Effect of Group-Velocity Dispersion 101<br />

Figure 4.17: Measur<strong>ed</strong> (solid lines) intensity and chirp profiles (a) at the output of a Yb-dop<strong>ed</strong><br />

fiber amplifier with 30-dB gain and (b) after propagation in a 2-m-long passive fiber. The circles<br />

show numerical results bas<strong>ed</strong> on the NLS equation, dott<strong>ed</strong> lines show the asymptotic solution,<br />

and dash<strong>ed</strong> lines show the intensity profile of a sech pulse. (After Ref. [66]; c○2000 APS.)<br />

shape is parabolic. A somewhat surprising feature of the solution in Eq. (4.2.10) is<br />

the total absence of optical wave breaking in the normal-GVD regime. It was discover<strong>ed</strong><br />

in a 1993 study that a parabolic shape represent the only shape for which optical<br />

wave breaking can be suppress<strong>ed</strong> [53]. Optical amplifiers facilitate the production of a<br />

parabolic shape since new frequency components are generat<strong>ed</strong> continuously through<br />

SPM in such a way that the pulse maintains a linear chirp as it is amplifi<strong>ed</strong> and its width<br />

increases through dispersion.<br />

An important property of the self-similar solution given in Eqs. (4.2.10) through<br />

(4.2.13) is that the amplifi<strong>ed</strong> pulse depends on the energy of the input pulse, but not on<br />

its other properties such as its shape and width. Parabolic pulses has been observ<strong>ed</strong> in<br />

several experiments in which picosecond or femtosecond pulses were amplifi<strong>ed</strong> in the<br />

normal-dispersion regime of a fiber amplifier. Figure 4.17(a) shows the intensity and<br />

phase profiles (d<strong>ed</strong>uc<strong>ed</strong> from FROG traces) observ<strong>ed</strong> at the output end of a 3.6-m-long<br />

Yb-dop<strong>ed</strong> fiber amplifier with 30-dB gain when a 200-fs pulse with 12-pJ energy was<br />

launch<strong>ed</strong> into it [66]. Part (b) shows the two profiles after further propagation in a<br />

2-m-long passive fiber. The experimental results agree well with both the numerical<br />

results obtain<strong>ed</strong> by solving the NLS equation (circles) and the asymptotic solution<br />

corresponding to a parabolic pulse (dott<strong>ed</strong> lines). As shown by the dash<strong>ed</strong> lines in<br />

Figure 4.17, the observ<strong>ed</strong> intensity profile is far from that of a “sech” pulse.<br />

Self-similar evolution toward a parabolic pulse has also been observ<strong>ed</strong> in fiberbas<strong>ed</strong><br />

Raman amplifiers [69]. In such amplifiers the nonlinear phenomenon of stimulat<strong>ed</strong><br />

Raman scattering is us<strong>ed</strong> to amplify the input pulse (see Section 8.3.6). Mode-

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