Observation of Spatiotemporal Self-Compression of Pulses in One-Dimensional Waveguide Arrays Fabricated by Laser Writing

The features of nonlinear propagation of high-intensity pulses in the short-wavelength infrared range in extended one-dimensional waveguide arrays with different spatial periods, formed in fused silica by laser writing, are studied. More than tenfold self-compression of femtosecond pulses up to a duration of several periods of the light field is experimentally observed.