Nonlinear pulse shaping in normally dispersive fibers: experimental examples

While the combination of Kerr nonlinearity with dispersion in optical fibers can seriously impair high speed optical transmissions, it also provides an attractive solution to generate new temporal and spectral waveforms. We explain in this talk how to take advantage of the progressive temporal and spectral reshapings that occur upon propagation in a normally dispersive fiber. We base our discussion on several experimental results obtained at telecommunication wavelengths.