Parametric gain control of a pulse in birefringent photonic crystal fibers

Saliya Coulibaly (1) , Z. Liu (1) , M. Taki (1) , G. P. Agrawal (2)

1 PhLAM - Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules - UMR 8523
2 The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester

Propagation of a modulationally amplified Gaussian pulse is considered inside a birefringent optical fiber. We show analytically that, in addition to a reduction in the parametric gain and a change in the pulse's group velocity, the third-order dispersion allows the generation of a temporal Airy-shaped pulse. Furthermore, pulse spreading in the temporal domain and chirping in the spectral domain both can be controlled through an interplay between third-order dispersion and modulational instability.

Mots clés: Dynamics of nonlinear optical systems; optical instabilities optical chaos and complexity and optical spatio-temporal dynamics; Photonic crystal lasers and coherent effects; Fiber lasers; Fiber optics

Domaines: Physique Générale [physics.gen-ph]

Saliya Coulibaly, Z. Liu, M. Taki, G. P. Agrawal. Parametric gain control of a pulse in birefringent photonic crystal fibers. Physical Review A : Atomic, molecular, and optical physics [1990-2015], 2012, 86, pp.33802. ⟨10.1103/PHYSREVA.86.033802⟩. ⟨hal-00944229⟩