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.
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- Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States). Lab. for Laser Energetics and Inst. of Optics
- Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States). Lab. for Laser Energetics
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- 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. doi:10.1364/JOSAB.35.000436.
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
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.
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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 = {Wed Jan 31 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Wed Jan 31 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}
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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 »
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