Fast self-pulsing through nonlinear incoherent feedback
Optics Letters, Vol. 31, Issue 4, pp. 495-497 (2006)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.31.000495
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Abstract
We consider a double-pass ring cavity with nonlinear incoherent optical feedback and analyze its response when it is driven by a continuous laser beam. This particular cavity is equivalent, in the temporal domain, to a simple spatial-pattern-generating system made from a Kerr slice and a feedback mirror. After formulating the evolution equations, we investigate the behavior of small-amplitude solutions and obtain an expression for the round-trip gains. We then explore the important effect of dispersion in the nonlinear medium. Finally, we show that stable modes are possible by solving numerically the full nonlinear equations.
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OCIS Codes
(060.2320) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics amplifiers and oscillators
(190.3100) Nonlinear optics : Instabilities and chaos
(190.3270) Nonlinear optics : Kerr effect
(190.4420) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, transverse effects in
(230.4110) Optical devices : Modulators
(230.4320) Optical devices : Nonlinear optical devices
ToC Category:
Nonlinear Optics
History
Original Manuscript: August 1, 2005
Revised Manuscript: October 18, 2005
Manuscript Accepted: November 10, 2005
Citation
Pascal Kockaert, Cyril Cambournac, Marc Haelterman, Gregory Kozyreff, and Thomas Erneux, "Fast self-pulsing through nonlinear incoherent feedback," Opt. Lett. 31, 495-497 (2006)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-31-4-495
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