Experimental demonstration of pulse shaping and shortening by spatial filtering of an induced-phase-modulated probe wave

Author

Dreischub, A. ; Buchvarov, I. ; Eugenieva, E. ; Iliev, A. ; Dinev, S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Quantum Electron., Sofia Univ., Bulgaria

Volume

33

Issue

3

fYear

1997

fDate

3/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

329

Lastpage

335

Abstract

An asymmetrically induced phase modulation resulting in an intensity-dependent spatial beam deflection and a subsequent spatial filtering have been used for all-optical pulse shaping and shortening. A compression factor of eight and controllable symmetrical super-Gaussian pulses and pulse trains have been observed in a good agreement with previous analyses in a pump-probe beam configuration

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; optical Kerr effect; optical pulse compression; phase modulation; spatial filters; all-optical pulse shaping; asymmetrically induced phase modulation; compression factor; controllable symmetrical super-Gaussian pulses; induced-phase-modulated probe wave; intensity-dependent spatial beam deflection; pulse shaping; pulse shortening; pulse trains; spatial filtering; Filtering; Laser beams; Laser theory; Optical beams; Optical filters; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pulses; Phase modulation; Probes; Pulse shaping methods;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/3.556000

Filename

556000