Air-cored, photonic band-gap crystal fibers exhibiting low nonlinearity and anomalous
chromatic dispersion in spectral ranges inaccessible to conventional fibers can be used in …

We report on the experimental demonstration of an all fiber CPA system based on a step-
index fiber stretcher and an air-guiding photonic crystal fiber compressor. The ultrafast fiber …

Breakthroughs in photonic crystal fibre technologies push the development of a new class of
fibre-optic frequency converters, broadband light sources, and short-pulse lasers. The …

We demonstrate an ultrashort all-fiber-integrated chirped-pulse amplification system yielding
1-ps pulses with 20 kW of peak power. 40-ps initial pulses generated by an externally …

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 report on the generation of high-average-power and high-peak-power ultrashort pulses
from a mode-locked fiber laser operating in the all-normal-dispersion regime. As gain …

We report the generation of high-energy high-peak power pulses in an all-normal dispersion
fiber laser featuring large-mode-area photonic crystal fibers. The self-starting chirped-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 …

Hollow-core photonic-crystal fibers are shown to allow propagation and nonlinear-optical
frequency conversion of high-intensity ultrashort laser pulses in the regime of isolated …

Self-phase-modulation-induced spectral broadening of laser pulses in air-guided modes of
hollow photonic-crystal fibers (PCFs) is shown to allow the creation of fiber-optic limiters for …