Title :
Temporal and spatial compression of near-resonant pulses in a nonlinear defocusing semiconductor
Author :
Nielsen, N.C. ; Kuhl, J. ; Schaarschmidt, Martin ; Förstner, J. ; Knorr, A. ; Koch, S.W. ; Giessen, H.
Author_Institution :
Max-Planck-Inst. fur Festkorperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany
Abstract :
The coupled spatiotemporal characteristics of subpicosecond pulses propagating in the nonlinear defocusing regime near the band edge of bulk GaAs are investigated experimentally and theoretically. We demonstrate pulse compression both in time and transverse space.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; gallium arsenide; high-speed optical techniques; nonlinear optics; optical focusing; optical pulse compression; GaAs; band edge; coupled spatiotemporal characteristics; nonlinear defocusing regime; pulse compression; subpicosecond pulses;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
