• DocumentCode
    1417390
  • Title

    Propagation of short optical pulses in dispersive medium

  • Author

    Christov, Ivan P.

  • Author_Institution
    Fac. of Phys., Sofia Univ., Bulgaria
  • Volume
    24
  • Issue
    8
  • fYear
    1988
  • fDate
    8/1/1988 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1548
  • Lastpage
    1553
  • Abstract
    A theoretical analysis of the propagation of transform-limited short pulses in the medium of oscillators (Lorentz model) is presented. In particular, a temporal-modes expansion of the propagating field is introduced for the nonresonance and the resonance cases. It is shown that the medium dispersion causes severe distortions in the pulse shape. The proper choice of medium parameters and/or spectral filtering of the different temporal modes may allow the formation of arbitrary pulse shapes
  • Keywords
    light propagation; optical dispersion; dispersion; dispersive medium; nonresonance; propagating field; pulse propagation; pulse shape distortion; resonance; temporal-modes expansion; transform-limited short pulses; Absorption; Atom optics; Atomic measurements; Dispersion; Equations; Frequency; Optical propagation; Optical pulses; Oscillators; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9197
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/3.7083
  • Filename
    7083