Nonlinear pulse compression, dispersion compensation, and soliton propagation in holey fiber at 1 micron

We fabricated a single mode, polarization maintaining, highly non-linear, 125 micron silica jacketed, holey fiber with anomalous dispersion at 1.06 micron. Nonlinear pulse compression and soliton propagation are demonstrated (1.06 micron, Yb3+ source) with just 1 mW average power.