Two-component few-cycle light bullets in a gradient waveguide with quadratic nonlinearity

Maria V. Komissarova; Sergey V. Sazonov; Aleksey A. Kalinovich; Irina G. Zakharova

doi:10.1117/12.2520737

30 April 2019 Two-component few-cycle light bullets in a gradient waveguide with quadratic nonlinearity

Maria V. Komissarova, Sergey V. Sazonov, Aleksey A. Kalinovich, Irina G. Zakharova

Proceedings Volume 11026, Nonlinear Optics and Applications XI; 110260L (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2520737
Event: SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics, 2019, Prague, Czech Republic

Abstract

In this work we present results of our study of light bullets in inhomogeneous media with quadratic nonlinearity. We consider the second harmonics generation by few-cycle pulses having about 3 – 5 oscillations under the envelope. We give reasons to apply “slowly varying envelope approximation” in this case. The self-consistent system of nonlinear equations for the envelopes of both harmonics is substantially modified in comparison with the case of quasimonochromatic signals. This system is supplemented by a third order group dispersion and by a dispersion of nonlinearity. The diffraction terms are also modified. The appropriate system of parabolic equations for the envelopes of both harmonics is obtained. To solve an arising 2D+1 system numerically we construct an original nonlinear finitedifference scheme based on the Crank-Nicolson and pseudo-spectral methods preserving the integrals of motion. We discuss different regimes of pulse propagation depending on the competition among nonlinearity, diffraction, temporal dispersion and waveguide geometry.

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Maria V. Komissarova, Sergey V. Sazonov, Aleksey A. Kalinovich, and Irina G. Zakharova "Two-component few-cycle light bullets in a gradient waveguide with quadratic nonlinearity", Proc. SPIE 11026, Nonlinear Optics and Applications XI, 110260L (30 April 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2520737

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