Title :
High-intensity self-accelerating Airy pulses and controllable spectral shifting in nonlinear Kerr media
Author :
Yi Hu ; Ming Li ; Bongiovanni, Domenico ; Clerici, Matteo ; Zhigang Chen ; Azana, Jose ; Morandotti, Roberto
Author_Institution :
Inst. Nat. de la Rech. Sci., Univ. du Quebec, Varennes, QC, Canada
Abstract :
We show that high-intensity Airy pulses propagating in Kerr-type nonlinear media can preserve their self-accelerating features under appropriate conditions. By engineering the input pulses, controllable spectral shifting and reshaping are achieved.
Keywords :
light propagation; optical Kerr effect; optical control; optical pulse shaping; spectral line shift; controllable spectral reshaping; controllable spectral shifting; high-intensity self-accelerating Airy pulse propagation; nonlinear Kerr media; Acceleration; Dispersion; Media; Nonlinear optics; Optical diffraction; Optical pulses; Optimized production technology;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
