The dispersion-managed Ginzburg–Landau equation and its application to femtosecond lasers

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/21/12/007zbMATH Open1159.78008arXiv0810.2527OpenAlexW3100251047MaRDI QIDQ3548464FDOQ3548464

Authors: G. Biondini 

Publication date: 12 December 2008

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The complex Ginzburg-Landau equation has been used extensively to describe various non-equilibrium phenomena. In the context of lasers, it models the dynamics of a pulse by averaging over the effects that take place inside the cavity. Ti:sapphire femtosecond lasers, however, produce pulses that undergo significant changes in different parts of the cavity during each round-trip. The dynamics of such pulses is therefore not adequately described by an average model that does not take such changes into account. The purpose of this work is severalfold. First we introduce the dispersion-managed Ginzburg-Landau equation (DMGLE) as an average model that describes the long-term dynamics of systems characterized by rapid variations of dispersion, nonlinearity and gain in a general setting, and we study the properties of the equation. We then explain how in particular the DMGLE arises for Ti:sapphire femtosecond lasers and we characterize its solutions. In particular, we show that, for moderate values of the gain/loss parameters, the solutions of the DMGLE are well approximated by those of the dispersion-managed nonlinear Schrodinger equation (DMNLSE), and the main effect of gain and loss dynamics is simply to select one among the one-parameter family of solutions of the DMNLSE.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.2527

Recommendations

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1269452
• A collective variable approach and stabilization for dispersion-managed optical solitons in the quintic complex Ginzburg–Landau equation as perturbations of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation
• Dynamics of optical solitons with dispersion-management
• Control of complex Ginzburg-Landau equation eruptions using intrapulse Raman scattering and corresponding traveling solutions
• Dissipative optical bullets modeled by the cubic-quintic-septic complex Ginzburg-Landau equation with higher-order dispersions
• Dispersion-managed solitons in the limit of large energy
• Dispersion managed solitons in the presence of saturated nonlinearity
• Dispersion management for solitons in a Korteweg–de Vries system

zbMATH Keywords

dispersionsolitonsnonlinear opticsweakly nonlinear systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60) PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60)

Cited In (1)

• Slip rates and slip modes in an actively mode-locked laser

This page was built for publication: The dispersion-managed Ginzburg–Landau equation and its application to femtosecond lasers

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q3548464)