Spectral broadening of ultrashort pulses in a nonlinear medium
Abstract
Spectral superbroadening of ultrashort-pulse propagation in a nonlinear medium is calculated by solving the nonlinear-wave equation more exactly. The effects of four-wave mixing and pulse deformation on phase modulation are included. The results yield an asymmetric Stokes-anti-Stokes broadening in fair agreement with the experimental observation.
- Publication:
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Optics Letters
- Pub Date:
- November 1984
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1984OptL....9..510Y
- Keywords:
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- Laser Outputs;
- Nonlinear Optics;
- Spectral Line Width;
- Ultrashort Pulsed Lasers;
- Frequency Shift;
- Phase Modulation;
- Wave Equations;
- Lasers and Masers