A short section of photonic crystal fibre has been used for ultra-short pulse compression. The
unique optical properties of this novel medium in terms of high non-linearity and relatively …

We demonstrate efficient spectral compression of femtosecond pulses near the zero-
dispersion wavelength in nonlinear photonic crystal fibers (PCFs). The highest measured …

We report the use of nonlinear compression in a very large mode-area rod-type photonic
crystal fiber. This fiber allows the use of high energy pulses in the few microjoule range. We …

We demonstrate the pulse compression at 1554 nm using one stage of highly anomalous
dispersive photonic crystal fibers with a dispersion value of 600 ps/nm∙ km. A 1.64 ps pulse …

We report on nonlinear pulse compression at very high average power. A high-power fiber
chirped pulse amplification system based on a novel large pitch photonic crystal fiber …

We describe the use of tapered hollow-core photonic crystal fibres for delivery and
compression of ultrashort optical pulses. We demonstrate delivery of transform-limited …

Compression of sub-nanojoule laser pulses using a commercially available photonic crystal
fiber (PCF) with zero dispersion wavelength of 860 nm is discussed. A twofold pulse …

We demonstrate compression of low-power 6 ps pulses to 420 fs around 1550 nm in a
compact all-fiber scheme utilizing the strong nonlinearity and positive-normal dispersion of a …

Nonlinear pulse compression of ultrashort pulses is an established method for reducing the
pulse duration and increasing the pulse peak power beyond the intrinsic limits of a given …

We numerically demonstrate effective pulse compression in photonic crystal fibers with
linearly decreasing dispersion and linearly increasing nonlinearity. The proposed fiber …