Scientific publications
Lucien Mandeng Mandeng
* (Corresponding author)
Timoléon Crépin Kofané
Other affiliations: The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Journal of Optics
We report the analysis of the compression mechanism for chirped femtosecond pulses in silicon-on-insulator waveguides under the effect of fourth-order dispersion (FOD) using the modified variational approach that involves Rayleighʼs dissipation function (RDF). Our results show that the nonlinear compression in these waveguides is input pulse dependent. Moreover, this study leads to a nearly periodic-like dynamic induced by the interplay between self-phase modulation and FOD in a normal group-velocity dispersion. In addition, when large values of the initial chirp and absorption coefficients present in these waveguides are considered, the compression mechanism is completely destroyed, with the observation of at least one pulse amplification over a short distance of propagation prior to pulse broadening.
