Generation of a pure phase-modulated pulse by cascading effect: a theoretical approach

Laurent Videau; Claude Rouyer; Josselin C. Garnier; Arnold Migus

doi:10.1117/12.424625

1 May 2001 Generation of a pure phase-modulated pulse by cascading effect: a theoretical approach

Laurent Videau, Claude Rouyer, Josselin C. Garnier, Arnold Migus

Proceedings Volume 4268, Growth, Fabrication, Devices, and Applications of Laser and Nonlinear Materials; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.424625
Event: Photonics West 2001 - LASE, 2001, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

We propose new smoothing techniques involving nonlinear cascaded processes. The scheme is based on the transfer of incoherent amplitude modulations of a pump beam to the phase of a monochromatic plane wave signal. For that, we can use nonlinear cascaded processes which create crossed phase modulation without efficient energy transfer. With this technique, we should be able to produce a temporal or/and spatial incoherent phase modulation without using electro- optic devices. We describe the mechanisms and the different schemes we propose such as a random temporal phase modulator or a temporally varying random phase plate. We present theoretical results by developing analytical calculations of the nonlinear phase. Then, we analyze the incoherent phase modulation with the correlation functions formalism. We present results which take into account temporal limitations such as the Group Velocity Dispersion (GVD) or the Group Velocity Walk-off (GVW) and spatial limitations such as the Diffraction and the Spatial Walk-off. Finally, we present an all-optical sinusoidal phase modulator setup.

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Laurent Videau, Claude Rouyer, Josselin C. Garnier, and Arnold Migus "Generation of a pure phase-modulated pulse by cascading effect: a theoretical approach", Proc. SPIE 4268, Growth, Fabrication, Devices, and Applications of Laser and Nonlinear Materials, (1 May 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.424625

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