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Parabolic Pulse Amplifiers
Guy MillotChristophe FinotJohn M. Dudleysubject
Femtosecond pulse shapingPhysicsOptical amplifierbusiness.industryPhysics::Optics02 engineering and technology01 natural sciencesAtomic and Molecular Physics and OpticsElectronic Optical and Magnetic MaterialsPulse (physics)010309 opticssymbols.namesake020210 optoelectronics & photonicsOpticsMultiphoton intrapulse interference phase scan0103 physical sciences[SPI.OPTI]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Optics / Photonic0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringsymbolsChirp[ SPI.OPTI ] Engineering Sciences [physics]/Optics / PhotonicbusinessNonlinear Schrödinger equationUltrashort pulseBandwidth-limited pulsedescription
International audience; Recent studies in nonlinear optics have led to the discovery of a new class of ultrashort pulse generated in fiber amplifiers by the self-similar propagation of an arbitrary input pulse. These pulses with a parabolic shape and linear chirp, called `optical similaritons,' represent asymptotic solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with gain, towards which any initial pulse of given energy converges, independently of its intensity profile. Parabolic pulse amplifiers can be easily developed with standard optical fibers and commercial devices. Our goal here is to emphasize the main properties of similaritons and to discuss a few of their numerous new applications.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-11-26 |