Abstract

Taking advantage of the combination of stimulated Raman scattering and nonlinear polarization rotation in a single-mode optical fiber, a temporal reshaping of subnanosecond pulses is achieved by means of both spectral and polarization filtering. Shortening of $650\mathrm{ps}$ down to $43\mathrm{ps}$ temporally and spectrally stable pulses is experimentally obtained. Numerical simulations supporting this new temporal filtering are presented.

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