Bragg Grating Solitons
Benjamin J. EggletonAT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974R. E. SlusherAT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974C. Martijn de SterkeAT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974P.A. KrugAT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974J. E. SipeAT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
1996en
ABI
Abstract
We report the first experimental observation of nonlinear propagation effects in fiber Bragg gratings, resulting in nonlinear optical pulse compression and soliton propagation. The solitons occur at frequencies near the photonic band gap of the grating; they are due to a combination of the negative dispersion of the grating, which dominates the material dispersion, and self-phase modulation. The solitons propagate at velocities well below the speed of light in the uniform medium.
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