Optical phase conjugation for time-domain undoing of dispersive self-phase-modulation effects
- 1 December 1983
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 8 (12) , 611-613
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.8.000611
Abstract
We show that the temporal distortion and spectral broadening of a pulse generated by the combined effects of group-velocity dispersion and self-phase modulation is removed by reflection of a cw-pumped, broadband, unity-reflecting Kerr-like optical phase conjugator followed by retraversal of the nonlinear medium. We also examine numerically the effects of finite linear loss in the material, of nonunity conjugate reflectivity, and of finite conjugator thickness.Keywords
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