Simulation of optical pulse compression using parabolic pulse with linear chirp

Abstract

It is the key of realizing high speed, large capacity fiber information transmission that achieve ultrashort optical pulse by optical pulse compression. At present, the compression method that is achieving parabolic pulse with linear chirp and compensating the linear chirp is paid more attention. Based on the two schemes for the parabolic pulse with linear chirp by the normal dispersion decreasing fiber or the fiber amplifier with a normal dispersion, more study on the characteristics of the parabolic pulse with linear chirp in the different dispersion decreasing profiles (such as cosine, Gaussian, linear, exponential and hyperbolic) is showed; the results show that, for different dispersion decreasing profiles, the good linear chirp and parabolic shapes that are good for pulse compression can be generated. Moreover, a novel scheme for the parabolic pulse, which is achieved by a dispersion decreasing fiber amplifier with a normal dispersion, is presented. Numerical simulations show that, compared with the parabolic pulses generated in the normal dispersion decreasing fiber or the fiber amplifier, the parabolic pulse generated by the novel scheme has the better linear chirp and the more pulse energy; the gain has an obviously effect on the intensity and quality of the linear chirp, which is that the output pulse has a smaller pulse width and higher pulse power after the chirp is compensated.