High-order pulse front tilt caused by high-order angular dispersion

Pulse stabilization by high-order dispersion management.

The stabilizing effects of dispersion management (DM) at second and third order are studied for both single-channel and wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) systems. We first derive a model for the slow evolution of a pulse in an optical fiber with high-order dispersion management (HODM). For single-channel systems, in contrast with conventional DM with constant third-order dispersion, this eq...

High-order dispersion in chirped-pulse oscillators.

The effects of high-order dispersion on a chirped-pulse oscillator operating in the positive dispersion regime were studied both theoretically and experimentally. It was found that odd and negative even high-order dispersions impair the oscillator stability owing to resonance with the dispersion waves, but can broaden the spectrum as in the case of continuum generation in the fibers. Positive f...

High-order Dispersion Effects in Self-focusing

Spatially filtered wave-front sensor for high-order adaptive optics.

Adaptive optics (AO) systems take sampled measurements of the wave-front phase. Because in the general case the spatial-frequency content of the phase aberration is not band limited, aliasing will occur. This aliasing will cause increased residual error and increased scattered light in the point-spread function (PSF). The spatially filtered wave-front sensor (SFWFS) mitigates this phenomenon by...

High-Order Flux Reconstruction Schemes with Minimal Dispersion and Dissipation

Modal analysis of the flux reconstruction (FR) formulation is performed to obtain the semi-discrete and fully-discrete dispersion relations, using which, the wave properties of physical as well as spurious modes are characterized. The effect of polynomial order, correction function and solution points on the dispersion, dissipation and relative energies of the modes are investigated. Using this...