Decay of femtosecond pulses in single-mode optical fibers
Grudinin A. B. , Dianov E. M. , Korobkin D. V. , Prokhorov A. M. , Serkin V. N. , Khaidarov D. V.
The dynamics of the decay of a 70-fs pulse into two solitons in a single-mode optical fiber has been studied experimentally for the first time. The results are used to estimate the relaxation time of the nonlinear response of quartz glass.