Schrödinger equation description for cross-phase modulation in grating structures
- 1 June 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 49 (6) , 5048-5055
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.49.5048
Abstract
We present a simple approximate description of systems involving cross-phase modulation in highly dispersive media. Optical pulses in such systems suffer large frequency shifts and correspondingly experience large variations in group velocity dispersion so that a simple nonlinear Schrödinger equation description is not valid. We take the frequency shift into account in a moments based model that extends the standard Schrödinger description, and apply the model to the particular case of optical pulse compression in nonlinear Bragg gratings. The model is tested against full numerical simulations. Finally, we consider some of the difficulties involved in observing the pulse-compression effect.Keywords
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