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Silica based highly nonlinear fibers to generate parabolic self-similar pulses

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Three different silica based normal dispersion fibers are designed to identify the best possible one for efficient parabolic pulse generation. Two of them resemble commonly used single core fibers and optimized in such a way that one has lower dispersion and nonlinear coefficient whereas the other possesses higher dispersion and lower nonlinearity. A silica based multi-cladded highly nonlinear fiber (ND-HNLF) is designed as well by successfully restricting its effective area to a very lower value. The comparative analysis among the three fibers suggests that the ND-HNLF would be the best choice for fiber optic manufacturers for parabolic similariton formation due to its smaller optimum length, no effect of higher order dispersion, high nonlinearity and less input power requirement. From our proposed ND-HNLF, a highly nonlinear dispersion decreasing fiber (HN-NDDF) is also designed and optimized by properly varying different fiber parameters as a function of fiber length. Our study also reveals that the HN-NDDF with a typical property of virtual gain would be beneficial for producing parabolic self-similar pulses at smaller optimum lengths with adequate spectral broadening in comparison to that of ND-HNLF.

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Authors are thankful to Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India for providing the financial support.

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  1. Department of Basic Science, MCKV Institute of Engineering, Liluah, Howrah, 711204, West Bengal, India

    Dipankar Ghosh

  2. Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur (Formerly Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur), Howrah, 711103, West Bengal, India

    Debasruti Chowdhury & Mousumi Basu

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Ghosh, D., Chowdhury, D. & Basu, M. Silica based highly nonlinear fibers to generate parabolic self-similar pulses. Opt Quant Electron 47, 2615–2635 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-015-0144-z

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