Temporal coherence shaping based on spectral-domain destructive interference of pulses with different self-phase modulations

D. Wei; K. Takamasu; H. Matsumoto

doi:10.2971/jeos.2013.13018

Journal of the European Optical Society - Rapid publications, Vol 8 (2013)

Temporal coherence shaping based on spectral-domain destructive interference of pulses with different self-phase modulations

D. Wei, K. Takamasu, H. Matsumoto

Abstract

We show via a numerical simulation that the temporal coherence function (TCF) can be shaped by the destructive interference of pulses characterized by different amounts of self-phase modulation (SPM) in the spectral domain. We find that pulse spectra destructively interfering with one another can yield a TCF with distinct peaks. Numerical investigation demonstrates that the shape of the TCF is changeable not only by broadening the spectrum but also by overlapping spectra of the pulses that have experienced different amounts of SPM.

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