Title :
Gain Enhancement Due to Transverse Effects in Chirped Quasi-Phase-Matched Optical Parametric Amplifiers
Author :
Charbonneau-Lefort, Mathieu ; Afeyan, Bedros ; Fejer, Martin M.
Author_Institution :
Stanford Univ., Stanford
Abstract :
We investigate transverse effects in chirped QPM gratings such as cascaded phase shifts and non-collinear interactions. We find enhanced growth over a wide bandwidth with gains much larger than in the 1D limit.
Keywords :
optical parametric amplifiers; optical phase matching; chirped quasi-phase matching; gain enhancement; optical parametric amplifiers; transverse effects; Broadband amplifiers; Chirp; Fluorescence; Gratings; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical pumping; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-834-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452696
