Title

Pulse-shape dependent time averaging effects in interferometric nonlinear phase shift measurements

Authors

Authors

D. Y. Kim;G. I. Stegeman

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

J. Nonlinear Opt. Phys. Mater.

Keywords

WAVE-GUIDES; Optics; Physics, Applied

Abstract

When optical pulses of temporal width less than or comparable to a detector's response time are used to interferometrically measure intensity-dependent phase shifts, it becomes necessary to use time-averaging protocols to deduce the material nonlinearity. Relations between the actual peak nonlinear phase shifts and the measured values are numerically evaluated for Gaussian and sech square pulse shapes. We believe that these results are also very important to understand the pulse break-up effect in Mach-Zehnder type all-optical switching applications.

Journal Title

Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics & Materials

Volume

6

Issue/Number

2

Publication Date

1-1-1997

Document Type

Article

DOI Link

http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218863597000137

Language

English

First Page

151

Last Page

159

WOS Identifier

WOS:A1997XR46500003

ISSN

0218-1991

Recommended Citation

"Pulse-shape dependent time averaging effects in interferometric nonlinear phase shift measurements" (1997). Faculty Bibliography 1990s. 1967.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib1990/1967