Switching pulses for an optical transistor

We study the characteristics of a rectangular pulse used to switch an optical transistor. Three regimes appear. (i) For low intensity pulses, the pulse duration and area decrease exponentially with increasing holding intensity. (ii) For high intensity pulses, the pulse duration and area decrease linearly with increasing holding intensity. (iii) For a holding intensity near the transition region, the only constraint is on the pulse area and not on its duration or intensity separately.     

Self-induced thermal effects of optical pulses in model aerosol media

The self-broadening and intensity self-limiting of millisecond optical pulses in the nonlinear scattering of intense light in model aerosol media are investigated experimentally. The experimental results are compared with existing theoretical calculations.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 3, pp. 33–39, March, 1976.     

Variant fractional Fourier transformer for optical pulses

We demonstrate that it is possible to perform a fractional Fourier transform of an incident pulse with a continuously variable degree of fractionality, using a dispersive and nonlinear Kerr medium. This medium acts as a linear waveguide for the optical pulse if its intensity is small and if the refractive index is nonlinearly time-dependently modified by a simultaneously launched bright soliton. For optical pulses the dispersive and nonlinear medium is perfectly equivalent to a graded-index refractive medium for optical beams.     

高速光脉冲的测量方法

 综述了目前国际上公认的测量高速光脉冲的几种方法，主要包括电光条纹相机（SC）、快速脉冲取样、二次谐波产生（SHG）、频率分辨光学门（FROG）以及光谱相位干涉直接电场重建（SPIDER）等。详细地阐述和分析了这些方法的原理、特点、适用范围以及它们的研究现状。     

高速光脉冲的测量方法

综述了目前国际上公认的测量高速光脉冲的几种方法,主要包括电光条纹相机（SC）、快速脉冲取样、二次谐波产生（SHG）、频率分辨光学门（FROG）以及光谱相位干涉直接电场重建（SPIDER）等。详细地阐述和分析了这些方法的原理、特点、适用范围以及它们的研究现状。     

强场亚周期光脉冲研究

强场亚周期光脉冲的产生是未来激光光源发展所追求的先进内容之一,其不仅标志了超快激光技术的前进方向,并且将开启新型强场光与物质相互作用研究的大门。作为当前强场物理研究的一个重要课题——阿秒脉冲技术,强场亚周期光脉冲的出现将带给它新的发展机遇。强场亚周期光脉冲不仅可以直接产生极紫外波段孤立阿秒脉冲,而且其光电场的可裁剪性能够用来优化阿秒脉冲的产生。然而,亚周期光脉冲对应的超宽带光谱,使强场亚周期光脉冲的产生面临很大的挑战性。将多个中心波长不同的少周期超短脉冲进行合并的光场相干合成技术是实现强场亚周期光脉冲的有效技术。文章将介绍亚周期光脉冲的研究进展,着重描述基于光场相干合成技术的强场亚周期光脉冲产生方法。     

Low-threshold high-dynamic-range optical limiter for ultra-short laser pulses

We demonstrate an optical limiter for ultra-short (∼100-fs) laser pulses. The device has a dynamic range (= damage energy/onset-of-limiting energy) of more than 10000 and an onset-of-limiting energy of only ∼10 nJ. The output-pulse energy is kept below 1.3 μJ. The limiting mechanism is based on two-photon absorption and refractive nonlinearities in a 20-mm piece of ZnSe. We discuss the importance of the different nonlinearities, damage issues, and guidelines for the construction of the device. Received: 20 December 2001 / Revised version: 25 March 2002 / Published online: 8 May 2002     

Non-envelope formulation for femtosecond optical pulses in semiconductors

We analyze the response of an ensemble of 1s-excitons driven by a femtosecond optical pulse, beyond traditional “slowly varying amplitudes” approach. For optical pulses of a given duration it is shown that the off-resonance optical field can evolve into a stable soliton with nonzero asymptotic behavior. Pis’ma Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 65, No. 5, 380–384 (10 March 1997) Published in English in the original Russian journal. Edited by Steve Torstveit.     

Active optical storage ring for high-power laser pulses

In an optical storage ring, a dye laser amplifier synchronously pumped by external laser pulses has been implemented and experimentally tested. The test was done at =580 nm, but the optical system can be used without limitations in a broad band of 400–700 nm. It is shown that a selected turn of the stored laser pulse can be amplified by typically a factor of 200. Power consideration gives an increase of the efficiency of the optical storage ring with a dye amplifying cell, as compared to a single passage of the laser pulse through the experimental section, by 23 times and it is shown that it can reach a factor of more than 100. PACS 42.60.Da; 42.60.Lh     

Chirped solitary pulses in low birefringent optical fibres: a theoretical model

Non-linear coupling of polarized solitons with initial linear frequency chirp in a low birefringent optical fibre is analysed on the basis of a theoretical model of coupled non-linear Schrödinger equations. A threshold condition is obtained for the bound state of two polarizations corresponding to a phase mismatch in solition positions.     

Imaging with short optical pulses

A new method of three-dimensional optical imaging based on range gating with subpicosecond pulses is being developed. As opposed to other techniques of medical imaging, this new method is characterized by both high contrast and resolution. Preliminary tests demonstrate a longitudinal resolution better than 10 μm. The computer algorithm needed to reconstruct the image from the attenuated backscattering and to extend to three dimensions the one-dimensional depth resolution, is discussed.     

A novel confocal optical pulse stretcher for laser pulses

We present an analytical and experimental study of a novel confocal optical pulse stretcher (COPS). The simple and passive pulse stretcher consists of two concave mirrors and a scraper beam-splitter and its optical configuration ensures a perfect spatial overlapping of laser pulses at the beam-splitter. The pulse stretcher is compact and suitable for laser pulses of large divergences. The confocal optical pulse stretcher is demonstrated on a pulsed copper vapour laser to convert a 40 ns (1/e² % points) pulse into a 55 ns with reduction of peak power by a factor of 1.375 without loss of pulse energy.     

Shaping of picosecond pulses for pumping optical parametric amplification

The use of temporally shaped pump pulses for optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification can increase the efficiency and suppress possible spectral distortions in this process. With this goal in mind a novel method for shaping narrowband picosecond pulses has been developed. The method is based on the pulse stacking principle, where replicas of the incoming pulse are created in a specially designed four-beam interferometer. The replicas are recombined with appropriate relative delays. The interferometer design allows for a unique flexibility in varying the pulse shape, since all relevant degrees of freedom, such as relative intensities and delays between the pulse replicas are independently adjustable. Here we describe the design of our device in detail and report on the experimental demonstration of its pulse-shaping capabilities. PACS 42.65.Yj; 42.65.Re; 42.81.Gs     

Focusing properties of shocking optical pulses

We show that optical-cycle steepening in a nonlinear dielectric before focusing results in an arbitrarily large enhancement of the focused intensity and energy density. The focusing of an optical shock produces singular intensity and energy density at the focal point.     

Synchronization of high-frequency chaotic optical pulses

Synchronization of high-frequency chaotic optical pulses is demonstrated in two semiconductor lasers with delayed optoelectronic feedback. The difference between synchronization and modulation is discussed. Evidence is presented to show that true synchronization, rather than modulation or amplification, is accomplished in our optoelectronic feedback system.     

Compression of amplified chirped optical pulses

We have demonstrated the amplification and subsequent recompression of optical chirped pulses. A system which produces 1.06 μm laser pulses widths of 2 ps and energies at the millijoule level is presented.     

8-辛烷氧基金属酞菁的皮秒三阶光学非线性与光限幅特性

应用Z扫描技术在甲苯溶液中研究了三种8辛烷氧基金属酞菁[(C8H17O)8PcZn(PcZn),(C8H17O)8PcNi(PcNi)和(C8H17O)8PcPb(PcPb)]在532nm对35ps脉冲激光的三阶非线性吸收和折射特性.用多能级模型拟合实验数据,得到三种酞菁的激发单重态吸收截面积σex分别为27×10-17cm2(PcZn),8.2×10-18cm2(PcNi)和3.4×10-18cm2(PcPb),相应的非线性折射率n2=-7.9×10-13,-5.5×10-13和-1.6×10-12esu,三种酞菁都具有自散焦效应.通过入射能流与透射能流的关系,研究了该类分子在甲苯溶液中在532nm对35ps脉冲激光的限幅特性,限幅机理是基于激发单重态的反饱和吸收.在TT0=0.5时,分别测定出它们的限幅阈值为60mJcm2(PcZn),80mJcm2(PcNi)和130mJcm2(PcPb).当入射能流达到500mJcm2时,相应的最高输出能流分别为40,80和150mJcm2,其中锌和镍酞菁的输出能流远低于同样条件下C60的输出能流(140mJcm2). 关键词： 光限幅 8-辛烷氧基金属酞菁 Z-扫描 非线性吸收     

All-reflective interferometric autocorrelator for the measurement of ultra-short optical pulses

We have developed a novel interferometric autocorrelator composed of only reflective elements, which functions as a beam splitter and an optical delay line. Analytical expressions are derived to give second-order autocorrelation functions and deconvolution factors for various conditions. The measurement of femtosecond laser pulses by interferometric autocorrelation is demonstrated in the visible region. The results are compared with those by calculation. Received: 9 December 2002 Revised version: 18 February 2003 / Published online: 5 May 2003 RID="*" ID="*"Present address: Department of Physics, Tokai University, 1117 Kitakaname, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa 259-1207, Japan RID="**" ID="**"Corresponding author. Fax: +81-48/462-4682, E-mail: asuda@postman.riken.go.jp