Anti-Stokes Raman gain enabled by modulation instability in mid IR waveguides
Anti-Stokes Raman gain enabled by modulation instability in mid IR waveguides
The inclusion of self-steepening in the linear stability analysis of modulation instability (MI) leads to a power cutoff above which the MI gain vanishes. Under these conditions, MI in mid-IR waveguides is shown to give rise to the usual double-sideband spectrum, but with Raman-shaped sidelobes. This results from the energy transfer of a CW laser simultaneously to both Stokes and anti-Stokes bands in pseudo-parametric fashion. As such, the anti-Stokes gain matches completely the Stokes profile over the entire gain bandwidth. This remarkable behavior, not expected from an unexcited medium, is shown not to follow from a conventional four-wave mixing interaction between the pump and the Stokes band. We believe this observation to be of relevance in the area of Raman-based sensors which, in several instances, rely on monitoring small power variations of the anti-Stokes spectral component.
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Sanchez, A.D.
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Fierens, P.I.
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Hernandez, S.M.
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Bonetti, J.
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Brambilla, Gilberto
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Grosz, D.F.
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1 November 2018
Sanchez, A.D.
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Fierens, P.I.
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Hernandez, S.M.
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Bonetti, J.
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Brambilla, Gilberto
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Grosz, D.F.
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Sanchez, A.D., Fierens, P.I., Hernandez, S.M., Bonetti, J., Brambilla, Gilberto and Grosz, D.F.
(2018)
Anti-Stokes Raman gain enabled by modulation instability in mid IR waveguides.
Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 35 (11), .
(doi:10.1364/JOSAB.35.002828).
Abstract
The inclusion of self-steepening in the linear stability analysis of modulation instability (MI) leads to a power cutoff above which the MI gain vanishes. Under these conditions, MI in mid-IR waveguides is shown to give rise to the usual double-sideband spectrum, but with Raman-shaped sidelobes. This results from the energy transfer of a CW laser simultaneously to both Stokes and anti-Stokes bands in pseudo-parametric fashion. As such, the anti-Stokes gain matches completely the Stokes profile over the entire gain bandwidth. This remarkable behavior, not expected from an unexcited medium, is shown not to follow from a conventional four-wave mixing interaction between the pump and the Stokes band. We believe this observation to be of relevance in the area of Raman-based sensors which, in several instances, rely on monitoring small power variations of the anti-Stokes spectral component.
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Accepted/In Press date: 27 September 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 27 September 2018
Published date: 1 November 2018
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/423855
ISSN: 0740-3224
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