Fig. 1. Optical layout of the experimental setup.

Fig. 2. Average output power and pulse width of the amplified pulses as a function of pump power.

Fig. 3. Output spectrum measured at the fiber output with different pump power and HNLF length (a) 26 mW, 5 m and (b) 45 mW, 7 m.

Fig. 4. Characteristics of wavelength shift of soliton pulses in function of fiber input power (dots with experimental data) and arbitrarily fit (red curve).

Fig. 5. Average output power as a function of launched 1560 nm pump power (dots with experimental data) and linear fit (red curve).

Fig. 6. Autocorrelation trace (left) and spectrum (right) of uncompressed pulses.

Fig. 7. Autocorrelation trace (left) and spectrum (right) of compressed pulses.

Fig. 8. Recorded output pulse train.

Fig. 9. RF spectrum of the compressor pulses recorded with 510 Hz RBW.