Title :
Nonlinear compression towards few-cycle pulses in two-photon semiconductor amplifiers
Author :
Kaminski, Noam ; Hayat, Alex ; Ginzburg, Pavel ; Orenstein, Meir
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa
Abstract :
Ultra broadband nonlinear two-photon gain is proposed for pulse compression down to few optical cycles. Recent experimental report on two photon gain in semiconductor is exploited for analysis of pulse compression under realistic semiconductor parameters.
Keywords :
nonlinear optics; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; two-photon processes; nonlinear few-cycle pulse compression; two photon gain; two-photon semiconductor amplifiers; Biomedical optical imaging; Nonlinear optics; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulse compression; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Ultrafast optics; (190.4180) Multiphoton processes; (270.5530) Pulse propagation and temporal solitons; (320.5520) Pulse compression integrated optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-859-9
