Nonlinear spectral-spatial control and localization of supercontinuum radiation. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We present the first observation of spatiospectral control and localization of supercontinuum light through the nonlinear interaction of spectral components in extended periodic structures. We use an array of optical waveguides in a LiNbO3 crystal and employ the interplay between diffraction and nonlinearity to dynamically control the output spectrum of the supercontinuum radiation. This effect presents an efficient scheme for optically tunable spectral filtering of supercontinua.

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev Lett

author list (cited authors)

  • Neshev, D. N., Sukhorukov, A. A., Dreischuh, A., Fischer, R., Ha, S., Bolger, J., ... Kivshar, Y. S.

citation count

  • 28

complete list of authors

  • Neshev, Dragomir N||Sukhorukov, Andrey A||Dreischuh, Alexander||Fischer, Robert||Ha, Sangwoo||Bolger, Jeremy||Bui, Lam||Krolikowski, Wieslaw||Eggleton, Benjamin J||Mitchell, Arnan||Austin, Michael W||Kivshar, Yuri S

publication date

  • September 2007