Title :
Group velocity control by quadratic nonlinear interactions
Author :
De Angelis, C. ; Baronio, F. ; Marangoni, M. ; Manzoni, C. ; Ramponi, R. ; Cerullo, G. ; Kitamura, K.
Author_Institution :
Ist. Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Brescia Univ.
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrate the group velocity tuning of ultra-short pulses through chi(2)-cascaded interactions. Group delay shifts up to 50 fs are achieved by propagating 40 fs pulses around 1400 nm in a 25-mm-long periodically-poled stoichiometric lithium-tantalate crystal
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; lithium compounds; nonlinear optical susceptibility; optical control; optical materials; optical phase matching; stoichiometry; 25 mm; 40 fs; LiTaO3; chi(2)-cascaded interactions; group velocity control; periodically-poled stoichiometric lithium-tantalate crystal; quadratic nonlinear interactions; ultrashort pulses; Dispersion; Nonlinear optics; Numerical simulation; Optical propagation; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical signal processing; Optical solitons; Ultrafast optics; Velocity control;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2005. LEOS 2005. The 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9217-5
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2005.1548058
