Kibler, BFischer, RobertLacourt, P.-A.Courvoisier, FFerriere, RLarger, LNeshev, DragomirDudley, John M2015-12-070013-5194http://hdl.handle.net/1885/21816Optimised compression of femtosecond fibre laser pulses in highly nonlinear fibre is demonstrated. Specifically reported are compressed pulse durations below 30fs using a simple setup where a single sub-10cm segment of highly nonlinear fibre is directly spliced to the output pigtail of a commercial femtosecond fibre laser. The compressed pulse quality is confirmed through frequency resolved optical gating measurements.Keywords: Fiber lasers; Nonlinear systems; Solitons; Optical gating; Pulse durations; Pulse quality; Laser pulses200710.1049/el:200717262015-12-07