• DocumentCode
    415399
  • Title

    Fast saturable absorber based on the excitation and filtering of quadratic spatially trapped beams in Ti:PPLN planar waveguide at 1550 nm

  • Author

    Pioger, P.-H. ; Couderc, V. ; Lefort, Laurent ; Barthelemy, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Fac. des Sci., Univ. de Limoges/CNRS, Limoges, France
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    22-27 June 2003
  • Firstpage
    525
  • Abstract
    We experimentally and numerically studied, in the picosecond regime, a fast nonlinear saturable absorber based on quadratic spatial trapped propagation in a Ti:PPLN waveguide at 1550 nm combined with spatial filtering.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; lithium compounds; optical filters; optical materials; optical saturable absorption; optical waveguides; radiation pressure; spatial filters; titanium; 1550 nm; LiNbO3:Ti; periodically poled lithium niobate; planar waveguide; quadratic spatially trapped beam; saturable absorber; spatial filtering; titanium; Apertures; Autocorrelation; Filtering; Nonlinear distortion; Optical filters; Optical propagation; Optical pulses; Optical waveguides; Planar waveguides; Solitons;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2003. CLEO/Europe. 2003 Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7734-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOE.2003.1313587
  • Filename
    1313587