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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2003. CLEO/Europe. 2003 Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7734-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE.2003.1313587
