Search results for "four-wave mixing"
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Nonlinear Multimode Fiber Optics
2018
We overview recent advances in the nonlinear optics of multimode optical fibers, including ultrabroadband sideband and supercontinuum generation, Kerr and Raman beam cleanup, modal modulation instabilities, four wave mixing, and second harmonic beam cleaning.
Nonlinear parametric resonances in quasiperiodic dispersion oscillating fibers
2015
We numerically study the evolution of the spectrum of parametric resonance or modulation instability sidebands in quasiperiodic dispersion oscillating fibers. We separately consider a linear variation along the fiber of either the spatial period, the average dispersion, or the amplitude of the dispersion oscillation. We found that this linear variation of the dispersion oscillating fiber parameters may provide different novel mechanisms for the splitting of the resonance sideband spectrum, owing to coherent interference between quasi-resonant waves that are generated at different points along the fiber. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Toward a thermodynamic description of supercontinuum generation
2008
International audience; We consider the incoherent nonlinear regime of the supercontinuum generation process in optical fibers. We show that, under certain conditions, the phenomenon of spectral broadening inherent to the supercontinuum generation may be described by simple thermodynamic arguments based on the kinetic wave theory. Accordingly, the supercontinuum generation process may be regarded as a thermalization process, which is characterized by an irreversible evolution of the optical field toward a thermodynamic equilibrium state, i.e., the state of maximum nonequilibrium entropy.
Control of nonlinear instabilities in Bessel beams using shaped longitudinal intensity profiles
2017
International audience; We show that tailored longitudinal intensity shaping of a non-diffracting Bessel beam can strongly reduce four wave mixing induced oscillations and stabilize nonlinear propagation at ablation-level intensities
Polarization instability in anisotropic-cavity degenerate four-wave mixing
2000
Abstract The emission and stability properties of a plane-wave model of intracavity degenerate four-wave mixing including self- and cross-phase modulation are studied. A Kerr medium inside an anisotropic cavity in which a linearly polarized field is injected is considered. Cavity anisotropy leads to qualitative new phenomena such as a subcritical polarization instability.
Four-wave-mixing coherent oscillator with frequency shifted feedback and misaligned pump waves.
2009
The effect of the pump waves misalignment on the oscillation spectra and oscillation intensity of a semilinear photorefractive oscillator is studied numerically and compared with the results of the experiment performed with a KNbO3:Fe,Ag crystal.
Semilinear photorefractive oscillator with reflection gratings
2003
We present results of calculation of the steady-state output characteristics for a semilinear photorefractive oscillator pumped with two independent counterpropagating waves when the reflection grating is operative and compare them with measurements made with a BaTiO3:Co.
Counter-propagating difference frequency mixing in diamond with terahertz waves
2013
We investigate four-wave mixing between terahertz and optical pulses in diamond. We observe the occurrence of sum and difference frequency generation, with the latter being phase-matched for terahertz pulses counter-propagating to the optical field.
Instabilities of four-wave mixing
2005
We predict that four-wave mixing driven by a dual frequency input undergoes different instability scenarios encompassing modulational instability or multiple shock formation in the anomalous and normal dispersion regime, respectively.
Hyper-Entanglement in Time and Frequency
2019
Hyper-entanglement, i.e. entanglement in more than one degree of freedom, enables a multiplicative increase in Hilbert space size. Such systems can be treated as multi-partite even though the number of state particles is not increased, making them highly attractive for applications in high-capacity quantum communications and information processing [1]. Until now, such states have been realized only using combinations of fully independent degrees of freedom, described by commuting operators, such as polarization and optical paths. Time and frequency, in turn, are linked and described by non-commuting operators. Here, using two discrete forms of energy-time entanglement we demonstrate that ti…