skip to main content
DOE PAGES title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Cross-phase-modulation-induced temporal reflection and waveguiding of optical pulses

Abstract

Cross-phase modulation (XPM) is commonly viewed as a nonlinear process that chirps a probe pulse and modifies its spectrum when an intense pump pulse overlaps with it. Here we present an alternative view of XPM in which the pump pulse creates a moving refractive-index boundary that splits the probe pulse into two parts with distinct optical spectra through temporal reflection and refraction inside a dispersive nonlinear medium. The probe even undergoes a temporal version of total internal reflection for sufficiently intense pump pulses, a phenomenon that can be exploited for making temporal waveguides. In this paper we investigate the practical conditions under which XPM can be exploited for temporal reflection and waveguiding. The width and shape of pump pulses as well as the nature of medium dispersion at the pump and probe wavelength (normal versus anomalous) play important roles. A super-Gaussian shape of pump pulses is particularly helpful because of its relatively sharp edges. When the pump wavelength lies in the anomalous-dispersion regime, the pump pulse can form a soliton,whose unique properties can be exploited to advantage. We also discuss a potential application of XPM-induced temporal waveguides for compensating timing jitter.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [1]
+ Show Author Affiliations
  1. Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States). Lab. for Laser Energetics and Inst. of Optics
  2. Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States). Lab. for Laser Energetics
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States). Lab. for Laser Energetics
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States); New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA); National Science Foundation (NSF); New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
OSTI Identifier:
1423130
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1418729
Report Number(s):
2017-219; 1375
Journal ID: ISSN 0740-3224; JOBPDE; 2017-219, 2332, 1375; TRN: US1801714
Grant/Contract Number:  
NA0001944; ECCS-1505636; ECCS- 1505636
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of the Optical Society of America. Part B, Optical Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 35; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 0740-3224
Publisher:
Optical Society of America (OSA)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; pulse propagation and temporal solitons; ultrafast nonlinear optics

Citation Formats

Plansinis, Brent W., Donaldson, William R., and Agrawal, Govind P. Cross-phase-modulation-induced temporal reflection and waveguiding of optical pulses. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.35.000436.
Copy to clipboard
Plansinis, Brent W., Donaldson, William R., & Agrawal, Govind P. Cross-phase-modulation-induced temporal reflection and waveguiding of optical pulses. United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.35.000436
Copy to clipboard
Plansinis, Brent W., Donaldson, William R., and Agrawal, Govind P. Wed . "Cross-phase-modulation-induced temporal reflection and waveguiding of optical pulses". United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.35.000436. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1423130.
Copy to clipboard
@article{osti_1423130,
title = {Cross-phase-modulation-induced temporal reflection and waveguiding of optical pulses},
author = {Plansinis, Brent W. and Donaldson, William R. and Agrawal, Govind P.},
abstractNote = {Cross-phase modulation (XPM) is commonly viewed as a nonlinear process that chirps a probe pulse and modifies its spectrum when an intense pump pulse overlaps with it. Here we present an alternative view of XPM in which the pump pulse creates a moving refractive-index boundary that splits the probe pulse into two parts with distinct optical spectra through temporal reflection and refraction inside a dispersive nonlinear medium. The probe even undergoes a temporal version of total internal reflection for sufficiently intense pump pulses, a phenomenon that can be exploited for making temporal waveguides. In this paper we investigate the practical conditions under which XPM can be exploited for temporal reflection and waveguiding. The width and shape of pump pulses as well as the nature of medium dispersion at the pump and probe wavelength (normal versus anomalous) play important roles. A super-Gaussian shape of pump pulses is particularly helpful because of its relatively sharp edges. When the pump wavelength lies in the anomalous-dispersion regime, the pump pulse can form a soliton,whose unique properties can be exploited to advantage. We also discuss a potential application of XPM-induced temporal waveguides for compensating timing jitter.},
doi = {10.1364/JOSAB.35.000436},
journal = {Journal of the Optical Society of America. Part B, Optical Physics},
number = 2,
volume = 35,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {1}
}
Copy to clipboard
Journal Article:
Free Publicly Available Full Text
Publisher's Version of Record
https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.35.000436
Copyright Statement
Other availability
Search WorldCat Search WorldCat to find libraries that may hold this journal

Figures / Tables:

Fig. 1 Fig. 1: Temporal (left column) and spectral (right column) evolutions over a 3-km-long fiber for the probe [(a),(b)] and pump [(c),(d)] pulse. The pump pulse has a super-Gaussian shape and is propagating at the zerodispersion wavelength of the fiber. See text for other parameter values. The time axis is measuredmore » in a reference frame that is moving with the pump pulse such that t − T − z/vg1« less
All figures and tables (9 total)
Save / Share:
Export Metadata
Save to My Library
You must Sign In or Create an Account in order to save documents to your library.

Works referenced in this record:

Time Refraction and Time Reflection: Two Basic Concepts
journal, January 2002

Temporal waveguides for optical pulses
journal, January 2016

  • Plansinis, Brent W.; Donaldson, William R.; Agrawal, Govind P.
  • Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Vol. 33, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.33.001112

Suppression of soliton jitter by a copropagating support structure
journal, January 1997

  • Shipulin, Arcady; Onishchukov, George; Malomed, Boris A.
  • Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Vol. 14, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.14.003393

Soliton-induced relativistic-scattering and amplification
journal, December 2012

  • Rubino, E.; Lotti, A.; Belgiorno, F.
  • Scientific Reports, Vol. 2, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/srep00932

Dynamics of light propagation in spatiotemporal dielectric structures
journal, April 2007

Experimental evidence of analogue Hawking radiation from ultrashort laser pulse filaments
journal, August 2011

Transformation of electromagnetic radiation at moving inhomogeneities of a medium
journal, December 2008

Frequency shifting at fiber-optical event horizons: The effect of Raman deceleration
journal, June 2010

Bouncing of a dispersive wave in a solitonic cage
journal, January 2015

Controlling Light by Light with an Optical Event Horizon
journal, April 2011

Fiber-Optical Analog of the Event Horizon
journal, March 2008

Trapping of light in solitonic cavities and its role in the supercontinuum generation
journal, January 2013

Comprehensive study on the concept of temporal optical waveguides
journal, June 2016

Hawking Radiation from Ultrashort Laser Pulse Filaments
journal, November 2010

Spectral Splitting of Optical Pulses Inside a Dispersive Medium at a Temporal Boundary
journal, December 2016

  • Plansinis, Brent W.; Donaldson, William R.; Agrawal, Govind P.
  • IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Vol. 52, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2016.2626081

Optical black hole lasers
journal, October 2012

Theory of generation of new frequencies by mixing of solitons and dispersive waves in optical fibers
journal, July 2005

Photon accelerator
journal, May 1989

Trapping and controlling the dispersive wave within a solitonic well
journal, January 2016

Bouncing of a dispersive pulse on an accelerating soliton and stepwise frequency conversion in optical fibers
journal, January 2007

Frequency Shifting of Femtosecond Pulses by Reflection at Solitons
journal, November 2012

Adiabatic theory of solitons fed by dispersive waves
journal, September 2016

Nonlinear optics of fibre event horizons
journal, September 2014

  • Webb, Karen E.; Erkintalo, Miro; Xu, Yiqing
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 5, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5969

Laser pulse analogues for gravity and analogue Hawking radiation
journal, March 2012

Observation of self-amplifying Hawking radiation in an analogue black-hole laser
journal, October 2014

Supercontinuum generation by multiple scatterings at a group velocity horizon
journal, January 2014

  • Demircan, Ayhan; Amiranashvili, Shalva; Brée, Carsten
  • Optics Express, Vol. 22, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.003866

What is the Temporal Analog of Reflection and Refraction of Optical Beams?
journal, October 2015

    [ × clear filter / sort ]

    Works referencing / citing this record:

    Front-induced transitions
    journal, September 2019

      [ × clear filter / sort ]

      Figures / Tables found in this record:

      Fig. 1 (p. 3)figure
      Fig. 2 (p. 4)figure
      Fig. 3 (p. 5)figure
      Fig. 4 (p. 5)figure
      Fig. 5 (p. 6)figure
      Fig. 6 (p. 7)figure
      Fig. 7 (p. 7)figure
      Fig. 8 (p. 8)figure
      Fig. 9 (p. 9)figure
        [ × clear filter / sort ]
        Figures/Tables have been extracted from DOE-funded journal article accepted manuscripts.

        Similar Records in DOE PAGES and OSTI.GOV collections: