Optimization of chirped mirrors

Author

Iakushev, Sergii O. ; Shulika, Oleksiy V. ; Andrade-Lucio, José A. ; Ibarra-Manzano, Oscar G.

Author_Institution

Lab. Photonics, Kharkov Nat. Univ. of Radio Electron., Kharkov

fYear

2008

fDate

2-4 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Refinement of spectral characteristics of chirped mirrors with numerical optimization algorithms is presented. We discuss different forms of merit function. Conjugate gradient method for numerical optimization is used for improvement of single chirped mirrors design as well as chirped mirrorspsila pair. A novel technique based on variation of Bragg wavelength curvature is proposed in order to achieve target phase shift. It allows us to manipulate the dispersion curve of a chirped mirror and particularly half period shift of quasiperiodic GDD resulted in subtraction of GDD oscillations. This is important for designing of complementary chirped mirrorspsila pair.

Keywords

chirp modulation; conjugate gradient methods; high-speed optical techniques; mirrors; optical dispersion; optical modulation; Bragg wavelength curvature; chirped mirrors; conjugate gradient method; dispersion curve; numerical optimization algorithms; quasiperiodic group delay dispersion; target phase shift; Bandwidth; Chirp; Collision mitigation; Design optimization; Gradient methods; Mirrors; Optical pulse compression; Photonics; Refractive index; Ultrafast optics; chirped mirrors; numerical optimization; pulse compression; ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Laser and Fiber-Optical Networks Modeling, 2008. LFNM 2008. 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Crimea

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2526-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2527-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LFNM.2008.4670361

Filename

4670361