Title

Soliton-like pulse propagation and second harmonic generation in waveguides with second-order optical nonlinearities

Keywords

Cascaded nonlinearity; Nonlinear optics; Second harmonic generation; Solitons

Abstract

The dynamics of second harmonic generation in strongly dispersive optical waveguides is investigated with a coupled-mode theory in frequency domain. In addition to the well-known energy exchange between the fundamental and the second harmonic, the parametric wave mixing causes nonlinear phase shifts. This nonlinear refraction can compensate for the group velocity dispersion which counteracts pulse broadening and leads to temporal soliton-like pulse propagation. Special properties, conditions, limits and applications for soliton propagation in integrated optics due to the cascaded second-order nonlinearity are discussed.

Publication Date

3-1-1997

Publication Title

AEU-Archiv fur Elektronik und Ubertragungstechnik

Volume

51

Issue

2

Number of Pages

77-86

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

0031098818 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0031098818

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