Short pulses in nonlinear photonic crystals: self phase modulation and pulse compression

Nikolai I. Koroteev; S. A. Magnitskii; Andrey V. Tarasishin; Alexei M. Zheltikov

doi:10.1117/12.342374

15 March 1999 Short pulses in nonlinear photonic crystals: self phase modulation and pulse compression

Nikolai I. Koroteev, S. A. Magnitskii, Andrey V. Tarasishin, Alexei M. Zheltikov

Proceedings Volume 3734, ICONO '98: Fundamental Aspects of Laser-Matter Interaction and New Nonlinear Optical Materials and Physics of Low-Dimensional Structures; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.342374
Event: ICONO '98: Laser Spectroscopy and Optical Diagnostics: Novel Trends and Applications in Laser Chemistry, Biophysics, and Biomedicine, 1998, Moscow, Russian Federation

Abstract

Self-phase modulation and compression of short laser pulses in 1D photonic band-gap (PBG) structures are considered as particular cases of the general problem of the propagation of short light pulses in photonic crystals. The nonlinear finite-different time-domain technique are applied to simulate the propagation of ultrashort laser pulses in linear and nonlinear 1D PBG structures. It is demonstrated that photonic crystals with embedded optical nonlinearity provide an opportunity to efficiently compress laser pulses to a duration of several optical cycles on a submillimeter spatial scale, providing new opportunities for the miniaturization of femtosecond solid-state laser systems. Examples of PBG pulse compressors that can be fabricated by means of currently existing technologies are considered.

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Nikolai I. Koroteev, S. A. Magnitskii, Andrey V. Tarasishin, and Alexei M. Zheltikov "Short pulses in nonlinear photonic crystals: self phase modulation and pulse compression", Proc. SPIE 3734, ICONO '98: Fundamental Aspects of Laser-Matter Interaction and New Nonlinear Optical Materials and Physics of Low-Dimensional Structures, (15 March 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.342374

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