DocumentCode
1963004
Title
Compensation of self-focusing using the cascade quadratic nonlinearity
Author
Beckwitt, Kale ; Wise, Frank W. ; Qian, Liejia ; Walker, Larry A., II ; Canto-Said, Edesly
Author_Institution
Dept. of Appl. Phys., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
Volume
2
fYear
2001
fDate
2001
Firstpage
439
Abstract
We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally the compensation of positive Kerr phase shifts with negative phases generated by cascade quadratic processes. Experiments show correction of small-scale and whole-beam self-focusing, and self-phase modulation
Keywords
compensation; laser beams; optical Kerr effect; self-phase modulation; B-integral compensation; bulk fused silica; cascade quadratic nonlinearity; femtosecond pulses; negative phases; nonlinear phase shifts; numerical simulation; pass-by-pass compensation; positive Kerr phase shifts; self-focusing compensation; self-phase modulation; small-scale self-focusing; third-order nonlinear medium; whole-beam self-focusing; High power amplifiers; Intensity modulation; Numerical simulation; Optical amplifiers; Optical materials; Pulse amplifiers; Refractive index; Scanning probe microscopy; Semiconductor materials; Silicon compounds;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2001. LEOS 2001. The 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location
San Diego, CA
ISSN
1092-8081
Print_ISBN
0-7803-7105-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/LEOS.2001.968861
Filename
968861
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