To meet the speed requirements of ultra-high bandwidth optical communications, devices need to be operated in real time, i.e., as fast as the time window of the time-multiplexed pulse packet. Nonlinear optical processes such as nondegenerate wave mixing can achieve such real-time operation. We describe our real-time spatio-temporal processing techniques by wave mixing; time-to-space conversion using three-wave mixing in a second-order nonlinear crystal and space-to-time conversion by a four-wave mixing arrangement employing cascaded second-order nonlinearities (CSN) for enhanced conversion efficiency. The ultrafast waveform imager performs serial-to-parallel demultiplexing of the shaped pulse train into parallel spatial channels for electronic detection. Our pulse image converter (PIC) system is capable of real-time conversion of a femtosecond pulse sequence into its spatial images. The approach employs spectral domain nonlinear 3-wave mixing in a LiB/sub 3/O/sub 5/ (LBO) crystal, where the spectral decomposition waves (SDW) of a shaped femtosecond pulse are mixed with those of a transform limited pulse to generate a quasi-monochromatic second harmonic field.


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    Title :

    Nonlinear spatio-temporal processing


    Contributors:
    Fainman, Y. (author) / Marom, D.M. (author) / Oba, K. (author) / Panasenko, D. (author) / Mazurenko, Y.T. (author) / Sun, P.C. (author)


    Publication date :

    1999-01-01


    Size :

    232840 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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