Title :
Soliton Compression to Few-cycle Pulses by Cascaded Quadratic Nonlinearities
Author :
Bache, Morten ; Moses, Jeffrey ; Bang, Ole ; Wise, Frank W.
Author_Institution :
Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby
Abstract :
Theoretical and numerical investigation of pulse-compression in a nonlinear crystal is presented. SHG soliton number is introduced and show that compression only takes place when it is larger than the "usual" Kerr soliton number. Pulse compression with cascaded quadratic nonlinearities requires that the ratio of the SHG and Kerr soliton numbers N>1.
Keywords :
optical Kerr effect; optical harmonic generation; optical pulse compression; optical solitons; Kerr soliton number; SHG soliton number; cascaded quadratic nonlinearities; nonlinear crystal; pulse-compression; Crystalline materials; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulses; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Physics; Pulse compression methods; Solitons;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0931-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0931-0
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4386319
