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Numerical and experimental investigations on ultra-fast all-optical saturable absorber on picosecond optical pulses at 1547 nm using spatial self-trapped propagation in a quadratic nonlinear film waveguide combined with spatial filtering are reported. The influences of phase-mismatch, pulse intensity and spatial filtering on the temporal reshaping mechanism are discussed to derive the optimum parameters.
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Pioger, P., Couderc, V., Lefort, L. et al. Ultra-fast saturable absorber through spatial self-trapping and filtering in Ti:PPLN film waveguides. Appl. Phys. B 77, 571–576 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-003-1271-y
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