Abstract
The recent development of the EDFA (erbium-doped fiber amplifier) offers the possibility for uses of the fibers to experiments on coherent pulse propagation such as self-induced transparency (SIT). The guiding of the radiation by the fiber structure eliminates diffraction effects and makes possible the interaction of the radiation with the fiber medium which has resonance effects over long distances. To date, however, experiments on SIT solitons have suffered from diffraction effects that were further complicated by nonlinear interactions. In the present paper, we report for the first time the observation of SIT soliton propagation in an erbium- doped resonant fiber waveguide.
© 1991 Optical Society of America
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