Steering of optical beams in nonlinear Kerr media by spatial phase modulation

Manipulating dispersive wave emission via temporal sinusoidal phase modulation

We report the dispersive wave (DW) emission from the Gaussian pulse with temporal sinusoidal phase (TSP) modulation. The TSP-induced chirp can enhance or cancel the chirp generated by self-phase modulation by properly selecting the modulation parameters of TSP, which can influence the nonlinear propagation of the TSP-modulated pulse. It is shown that the TSP can effectively control the resonant frequency and energy conversion efficiency of the DW emission. We give a modified phase-matching condition to predict the resonant frequencies, which agree with the simulation results obtained by numerically solving the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. The enhanced conversion efficiency of the DWs can be increased up to 28% with only TSP modulation. Our results can extend the application of temporal phase modulation technology for wavelength conversion, and broadband supercontinuum generation.

Soliton self-routing in a finite photonic potential

We investigate power-dependent routing of one-dimensional Kerr-like spatial solitons in the presence of a finite photonic potential. Large self-deflections can be obtained using a trapping index well of limited length.

Beam steering by chi((2)) trapping

We show numerically the mutual dragging and locking together of intense fundamental and second-harmonic light beams propagating in second-order nonlinear media, and we discuss the potential applications of such effects for the steering of beams by spatial phase modulation of the input signals.

Pulse compression and spatial phase modulation in normally dispersive nonlinear Kerr media

Numerical simulations show that, because of the spatiotemporal coupling implied by the multidimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation, self-focusing of ultrashort optical pulses can lead to pulse compression even in the normal-dispersion regime of a nonlinear Kerr medium. We show how this coupling can be further exploited to control the compression by use of spatial phase modulation. Both the compression factor and the position at which the minimum pulse width is realized change with the amplitude of the phase modulation.