Novel applications of fibre tapers

In this talk we will discuss new applications for fibre tapers ranging from femtosecond pulse manipulation to optical clock generation in micro-coil resonators. Fundamental to these interactions is the enhanced nonlinearity arising from the smaller cores making compact optical devices possible

Parabolic pulse formation in tapered microstructured optical fibres

In this paper we present simulations of pulse shaping in a microstructured optical fibre (MOF) taper. The MOF has been modelled in the normal dispersion regime and taper parameters proposed. We show results of parabolic pulse generation in the linearly tapered optical fibre, for Gaussian input pulses of different widths and powers