Abstract
A fundamental pulse-compression limit for high-nonlinear dispersion-flattened fibers (HNLF) has been detected in the normal dispersion regime near the zero-dispersion wavelength. It occurs, when the desired generation of a broadband continuum by self-phase modulation is perturbed by already small third-order dispersion, which results in pulse splitting above a critical pulse power. Subsequent compression in a anomalous single mode fiber (SMF) fails then.
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