Decay of femtosecond pulses during amplification in single-mode optical fibers doped with Er3+ ions
Grudinin A. B. , Dianov E. M. , Korobkin D. V. , Makarenko A. Yu. , Prokhorov A. M. , Khrushchev I. Yu.
The decay of femtosecond pulses during amplification in single-mode optical fibers doped with Er3+ ions has been observed for the first time. The Stokes component of the split pulse is a soliton.