Numerical study of few-cycle pulses by nonlinear compression in two-photon semiconductor amplifiers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 173-175

  Kaminski, Noam ^a   Hayat, Alex ^a   Ginzburg, Pavel ^a   Orenstein, Meir ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Amplifiers; Dispersive media; Nonlinear optics; Numerical analysis; Semiconductor device modelling

Indexed keywords

CIVIL AVIATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; KERR MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECT; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECTS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTONS; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PULSE COMPRESSION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

AMPLIFIERS; CARRIER DEPLETIONS; DISPERSIVE MEDIA; FEW-CYCLE PULSE; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN METHODS; INJECTED CARRIERS; KERR EFFECTS; LINEAR ABSORPTIONS; MATERIAL DISPERSIONS; MATERIAL MODELS; NON-LINEAR COMPRESSIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; OPTICAL CYCLES; OPTICAL PULSE COMPRESSIONS; PLASMA RESPONSE; PULSE DYNAMICS; SEMICONDUCTOR AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELLING; SEMICONDUCTOR PARAMETERS; TWO PHOTONS; TWO-PHOTON PROCESS; ULTRA BROADBANDS;

NONLINEAR ANALYSIS;

EID: 59749084038     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.2009469     Document Type: Article

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