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Comparison of spatial versus spectral Bragg selectivity for diffraction of femtosecond pulses from volume holograms

  • Y. Ding*
  • , D. D. Nolte
  • , Z. Zheng
  • , A. Kanan
  • , A. M. Weiner
  • , G. A. Brost
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Purdue University

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Abstract

Nondegenerate four-wave mixing is used to explore the bandwidth of the hologram written by two beams from a cw laser at 980 nm. The femtosecond probe beam with a pulse width of 150 fs at 1500 nm has a bandwidth of 16 nm. The InP:Fe crystal is temperature controlled to exploit the intensity-temperature resonance. Using the Kogelnik theory, the wavelength range 2Δλ 1/2 is found, beyond which the diffraction efficiency drops below 50%. Because Δλ 1/2 depends on the square of the grating period, large bandwidths are achieved by increasing the grating period.

Original languageEnglish
Pages215
Number of pages1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1998
Externally publishedYes
EventProceedings of the 1998 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO - San Francisco, CA, USA
Duration: 3 May 19988 May 1998

Conference

ConferenceProceedings of the 1998 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO
CitySan Francisco, CA, USA
Period3/05/988/05/98

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