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Ultra-fast saturable absorber through spatial self-trapping and filtering in Ti:PPLN film waveguides

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Numerical and experimental investigations on ultra-fast all-optical saturable absorber on picosecond optical pulses at 1547 nm using spatial self-trapped propagation in a quadratic nonlinear film waveguide combined with spatial filtering are reported. The influences of phase-mismatch, pulse intensity and spatial filtering on the temporal reshaping mechanism are discussed to derive the optimum parameters.

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  1. I.R.C.O.M., Faculté des Sciences, Université de Limoges/CNRS, 123 Ave. A. Thomas, 87060, Limoges, France

    P.H. Pioger, V. Couderc, L. Lefort & A. Barthélémy

  2. Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica delle materia, Dipartimento di Elettronica per l’Automazione, Università di Brescia, via Branze 38, 25123, Brescia, Italy

    F. Baronio & C. De Angelis

  3. Angewandte Physik, Universität Paderborn, 33095, Paderborn, Germany

    Y.H. Min, V. Quiring & W. Sohler

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Pioger, P., Couderc, V., Lefort, L. et al. Ultra-fast saturable absorber through spatial self-trapping and filtering in Ti:PPLN film waveguides. Appl. Phys. B 77, 571–576 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-003-1271-y

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