Open AccessPulse shaping via Backward Second Harmonic Generation
Author(s) -
Matteo Conforti,
Costantino De Angelis,
У. К. Сапаев,
Gaetano Assanto
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.16.002115
Subject(s) - optics , pulse shaping , high harmonic generation , second harmonic generation , pulse (music) , nonlinear optics , femtosecond pulse shaping , ultrashort pulse , physics , laser , detector
We numerically demonstrate pulse shaping by backward frequency doubling of femtosecond laser pulses in engineered quasi-phase-matched waveguides. We employ optimal control theory to access the regime of pump depletion.