DocumentCode
2067766
Title
Superfluorescence dynamics of OPCPAs in the saturation regime
Author
Moses, J. ; Manzoni, C. ; Cerullo, G. ; Kärtner, F.X.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
fYear
2011
fDate
22-26 May 2011
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
1
Abstract
In this work, we have conducted a numerical analysis of saturation dynamics of quantum-noise contaminated OPCPA employing a new approach which captures the dynamics of energy exchange during amplifier saturation between what will become coherent and incoherent components of the electric field after compression, and well reproduces the macroscopic characteristics observed in experiments upon comparison. Our approach utilizes the correspondence between the evolution equations of quantum mechanical expectation values and the classical Fokker-Planck equations even for nonlinear systems, when the nonlinearity is suitably weak. This allows us to accurately compute quantum-mechanical expectation values from stochastic distributions of a signal and vacuum noise seeded OPCPA system solved numerically from the classical equations of motion.
Keywords
chirp modulation; optical parametric amplifiers; quantum noise; quantum optics; superradiance; Fokker-Planck equations; OPCPA; amplifier saturation; electric field; nonlinear systems; numerical analysis; optical parametric chirped pulse amplification; quantum mechanical expectation values; quantum noise; saturation dynamics; saturation regime; superfluorescence dynamics;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference
Conference_Location
Munich
ISSN
Pending
Print_ISBN
978-1-4577-0533-5
Electronic_ISBN
Pending
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5943015
Filename
5943015
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