Quasi-parabolic pulses in a coherent nonlinear optical amplifier.
We show that, in a coherent two-level optical amplifier with Kerr nonlinearity and linear loss, any weak seed pulse evolves into a fixed powerful linearly chirped pulse with quasi-parabolic shape. This process is associated with a transition from the incoherent into the coherent amplification regime, thus enabling in practice the generation of pulses with a spectrum wider than the linear gain bandwidth.
Kozlov
Victor V
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St.-Petersburg Univerisity, Department of Physics, Petrodvoretz, St.-Petersburg 198504 Russia. victor.kozlov@email.com
Wabnitz
Stefan
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