Quasi-soliton propagation in dispersion-engineered silicon nanowires

Soliton-like propagation of ultra-short pulses in dispersion-engineered silicon photonic wires is theoretically investigated via the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. It is shown that by proper patterning of silicon waveguides, the engineering of group velocity dispersion can effectively compensate for both linear and two-photon absorption-induced nonlinear losses. Quasi-soliton propagation is demonstrated for 100-fs pulses over large propagation lengths for a realistic silicon wire of optimally patterned waveguide width.     

High order dispersion control for femtosecond CPA lasers

Taking advantage of the temperature dependence of the refractive index, an arrangement is proposed for thermal control of dispersion of a chirped pulse amplification (CPA) laser. A glass slab, inserted into the Fourier plane of a stretcher or a compressor, having a spatially varying temperature profile across the beam ensures continuous variation of the spectral phase shift of the pulses. Model calculations are carried out to investigate the feasibility of the arrangement. As a demonstration, simple temperature profiles are created which compensate for the material dispersion of the thermal slab. In a proof of principle experiment it is proved that changes of spectral phase of femtosecond pulses follow the spatially varying temperature profile of a BK7 slab inserted into the compressor of a CPA system. Such a thermal slab is lossless, has a large spectral range, introduces no pixellation and exhibits a high damage threshold. Since it is easy to build into either the stretcher or the compressor of existing CPA lasers, it may become a promising candidate for high order dispersion compensation of high-power femtosecond laser systems. PACS 42.65.Re; 42.79.-e; 42.60.By     

Modeling interaction of ultrashort pulses with ENZ materials

In this work, the split-step Fourier method for beam propagation is used to investigate the interaction of ultra-short pulses with epsilon-near-zero materials. The propagation of pulses is governed by the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) containing dispersion, gain-bandwidth, self-phase modulation, self-steepening, and absorption parameters. It is found that the intensity profile of the pulse is broadened and the phase of the pulse is shifted by dispersion phenomena. The gain/loss related to the imaginary part of the refractive index causes an increase or decrease in intensity and pulse edge effects. These effects do not favor the steady propagation of the pulse. The self-phase modulation is not noted to appreciably affect the intensity pulse profile. The self-steepening modifies the phase and energy of the pulse during propagation, as well as absorption, which influences the losses by both the linear and nonlinear effects.     

单模光纤中超短脉冲的前向四波混频

给出了一组在单模光纤中超短脉冲前向四波混频的耦合波方程。利用这组方程所作的数值研究表明：在低转换和脉冲的走离远小于脉冲宽度的条件下,越短脉冲前向四波混凝的转换效率对相位失配的关系与连续波四波混频情况基本相同,不存在使增益为零的Δｋ（ｋ为不考虑非线性折射率时模的波数）的取值区间,蛤峰值条件应该是Δｋ＝０（ｋ为计及非线性折射率时模的波数）,而不是Δｋ＝０;窄脉冲的转换效率略低且峰值位置与Δｋ＝０稍有偏     

基于耗散孤子种子的啁啾脉冲光纤放大系统输出特性

以不同滤波器带宽下获得的全正色散光纤激光器耗散孤子作为啁啾脉冲放大(CPA)系统的种子脉冲, 研究了光栅对和光纤展宽器CPA系统输出脉冲的可压缩性. 结果表明, 对于大能量耗散孤子种子脉冲, 当CPA系统采用正色散光纤展宽器时, 光纤群速色散与自相位调制之间的相互作用不仅可抑制耗散孤子脉冲光谱调制的影响, 还可使脉冲在光纤展宽器中自相似演化, 从而可提高CPA输出脉冲的可压缩性. 通过优化光纤展宽器长度, 对于耗散孤子种子源, 采用光纤展宽器的CPA系统输出脉冲可压缩性与主脉冲所占脉冲总能量之比均优于采用光栅对展宽器时的情况.     

超短光脉冲在双折射光子晶体光纤中产生超连续谱的偏振特性数值分析

采用矢量耦合非线性薛定谔方程描述了超短光脉冲在双折射光子晶体光纤中的传输过程,并利用分步傅里叶方法求解该方程。数值模拟了中心波长为1550nm的超短光脉冲在不同色散参量的双折射光子晶体光纤中超连续谱的产生及其偏振特性。分析了光纤在不同色散区时,高阶色散和非线性效应对超连续谱及其偏振态的影响。结果表明,当超短光脉冲波长位于近光纤零色散点的反常色散区时,比其在光纤正常色散区和远离光纤零色散点的反常色散区更容易产生宽且平坦的超连续谱,所得到的光谱显示出了复杂的偏振态特性。     

宽带光学参变啁啾脉冲放大系统的色散控制

在设计宽带光学参变啁啾脉冲放大系统时,对色散源进行了理论分析和讨论。对光学参变啁啾脉冲放大系统的色散量以及各个过程中的高阶色散对脉冲时域和频域特性的影响进行了计算。结果表明展宽器引入了非常大的色散,放大器中信号光相位变化产生的色散较大,参量晶体本身引入的色散相对较小可以忽略不计。输出脉冲宽度主要受二阶色散影响,而三阶和四阶色散主要影响脉冲的波形和信噪比,对频域影响很小。     

光强对短脉冲在准周期光学超晶格中传输的影响

 在考虑自相位调制和高阶群速色散的情况下，分析了超短脉冲在准周期Fibonacci超晶格中传输时，入射光强对脉冲传输特性的影响。结果表明：入射光强度对脉冲传输特性影响很大，不但使频谱展宽，而且限制超晶格的有效长度，是超短脉冲进行频率转换的主要考虑因素之一。     

Design considerations for a compact grism stretcher for non-collinear optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification

The dispersion management of a non-collinear optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier is presented. A stretcher based on a combination of a grating and a prism pair (grism) is given and analyzed in detail. This combination can provide up to 300 nm acceptance bandwidth and is suitable for parametric amplification of few-cycle pulses. The amplified pulses can be compressed by the dispersion of optical glasses such as SF57 and the residual high-order dispersion may be compensated by adaptive optical filters and chirped mirrors.     

Propagation and interaction of ultra-short pulses in quadratic crystals with controlled dispersion

Propagation of ultra-short optical pulses in an environment with quadratic nonlinearity and modulated dispersion is studied. It is shown that periodic modulation of the velocity-mismatch sign and of the third-order dispersion coefficient allows one to suppress pulse scattering and decompression, which noticeably increases their interaction efficiency. Original Russian Text ? A.A. Ivanov, B.B. Petrov, C.C. Sidorov, 2009, published in Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Fizika, 2009, No. 1, pp. 90–92.     

高阶效应对超短艾里-高斯脉冲相互作用的影响

本文运用分步傅里叶变换,对满足高阶耦合非线性薛定谔方程的超短艾里脉冲与超短高斯脉冲,利用MATLAB数值模拟了在高阶效应下两脉冲相互作用后的演化过程以及时域上的强度变化.获得了负三阶色散效应使超短脉冲相互作用能传输更远距离;正三阶色散效应会减慢超短脉冲相互作用的传输.自陡峭效应通过孤子分裂现象的形式使超短脉冲相互作用产生时域位移.内拉曼效应可以将超短脉冲相互作用的能量由前沿处转移到后沿处.     

高阶效应对超短艾里-高斯脉冲相互作用的影响

本文运用分步傅里叶变换,对满足高阶耦合非线性薛定谔方程的超短艾里脉冲与超短高斯脉冲,利用MATLAB数值模拟了在高阶效应下两脉冲相互作用后的演化过程以及时域上的强度变化。结果表明：负三阶色散效应使超短脉冲相互作用能传输更远距离;正三阶色散效应会减慢超短脉冲相互作用的传输。自陡峭效应通过孤子分裂现象的形式使超短脉冲相互作用产生时域位移,内拉曼效应可以将超短脉冲相互作用的能量由前沿处转移到后沿处。     

高阶效应对超短艾里-高斯脉冲相互作用的影响

本文运用分步傅里叶变换,对满足高阶耦合非线性薛定谔方程的超短艾里脉冲与超短高斯脉冲,利用MATLAB数值模拟了在高阶效应下两脉冲相互作用后的演化过程以及时域上的强度变化。结果表明：负三阶色散效应使超短脉冲相互作用能传输更远距离;正三阶色散效应会减慢超短脉冲相互作用的传输。自陡峭效应通过孤子分裂现象的形式使超短脉冲相互作用产生时域位移,内拉曼效应可以将超短脉冲相互作用的能量由前沿处转移到后沿处。     

基于高阶色散管理和相位共轭技术的色散补偿

相位共轭技术能够同时且高效地补偿二阶色散及非线性效应，且该技术同信号比特率、调制方式无关，是最有前景的色散补偿技术之一。理论分析了在高阶色散作用下，超短高斯脉冲信号在中距相位共轭通信系统中的传输演化特性，数值模拟了在二阶、三阶和四阶色散作用下，飞秒高斯脉冲信号在基于中距相位共轭技术的光纤色散管理链中的动态传输过程。结果表明，相位共轭技术和高阶色散管理相结合，不仅可以补偿和复原包括奇数阶和偶数阶色散在内的全部色散和非线性所引入的信号失真和畸变，而且能够减弱时分复用系统中脉冲之间的相互作用，使得信号在传输一个周期后恢复波形，从而提高了相位共轭系统对失真信号的补偿性能。     

基于绝热孤子压缩效应的小基座孤子脉冲研究

高重复频率超短光脉冲产生技术是高速光时分复用(OTDM)系统的关键技术之一,而一般的超短脉冲源直接产生的脉冲往往不够窄,因此必须对光脉冲进行压缩后才能满足高速光通信系统的要求。采用360 m长的色散渐减光纤(DDF),成功将从再生锁模光纤激光器(RMLFL)输出的中心波长1546 nm、重复频率10 GHz、脉宽分别为5.40 ps和4.60 ps的光脉冲,绝热压缩为脉宽为1.93 ps和1.71 ps的小基座孤子脉冲,压缩因子分别为2.80和2.69。利用这种绝热孤子压缩方法得到的光脉冲质量较好,可以用于160 Gb/s的光时分复用系统。     

Grism compressor for carrier-envelope phase-stable millijoule-energy chirped pulse amplifier lasers featuring bulk material stretcher

We demonstrate compression of amplified carrier-envelope phase (CEP)-stable laser pulses using paired transmission gratings and high-index prisms, or grisms, with chromatic dispersion matching that of a bulk material pulse stretcher. Grisms enable the use of larger bulk stretching factors and thereby higher energy pulses with lower B-integral in a compact amplifier design suitable for long-term CEP control.     

Self phase-modulation in the breakdown of gases by ultra-short pulses

In a gas breakdown experiment with ultra-short optical pulses, the transmitted laser light shows spectral alterations attributed to a self phase-modulation. This effect is due to the refractive index change accompanying the ionization growth. A numerical treatment indicates that the predominant mechanism is cascade collisionnal ionization.     

Dispersion management for a sub-10-fs, 10 TW optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier

We report the amplification of three-cycle, 8.5 fs optical pulses in a near-infrared noncollinear optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier (OPCPA) up to energies of 80 mJ. Improved dispersion management in the amplifier by means of a combination of reflection grisms and a chirped-mirror stretcher allowed us to recompress the amplified pulses to within 6% of their Fourier limit. The novel ultrabroad, ultraprecise dispersion control technology presented in this work opens the way to scaling multiterawatt technology to even shorter pulses by optimizing the OPCPA bandwidth.     

Dispersion and nonlinear phase-shift compensation in high-peak-power short-pulse fiber laser sources using photonic-crystal fibers

Photonic-crystal fibers (PCFs) with a specifically designed dispersion profile and nonlinearity are shown to enable an accurate broadband compensation of the stretcher-compressor dispersion in fiber laser sources of high-peak-power ultrashort light pulses. We demonstrate that the nonlinear phase shift in such systems can partially compensate for the fourth-order dispersion, allowing the stretcher—compression group delay to be compensated up to the fourth-order dispersion terms by using a sequence of only two fibers—a standard optical fiber and a PCF.     

Dispersion control of a pulse stretcher– compressor system with two-dimensional spectral interferometry

The frequency dependence of the group delay of both a pulse stretcher and a stretcher–compressor system of a chirped pulse amplification laser is determined with a two-dimensional extension of a spectral interferometric method called the stationary phase point method. The 800-nm, 15-fs probe pulse from a Ti:S oscillator propagates through the stretcher or the stretcher–compressor system. The reference pulse is one of the subsequent oscillator pulses but passes the system and interferes with the probe pulse; hence, a Mach–Zehnder-type interferometer is formed. The shape of the spectrally resolved interference fringes is peculiar to the amount and sign of the relative dispersion properties of the pulses. Group-delay dispersion is obtained from the observation of the position of the stationary phase point in spectrally resolved interferograms at different time delays. This simple method allows for an almost complete and fast alignment of the stretcher–compressor system from scratch until the final adjustments. PACS 42.65.Re