Scientific publications
Lucien Mandeng Mandeng
* (Corresponding author)
Timoléon Crépin Kofané
Journal of Modern Optics
In a linear dispersive optical medium under fourth-order dispersion (FOD), we study the dynamics of the chirped pulse compression with the help of trial Gaussian and raised-cosine (RC) ansätze pulses. The analysis based on the variational approach leads to the occurrence of compression conditions, highlighting the cases where both the group-velocity dispersion (GVD) and the chirp could have the same sign or the case where both the FOD and the GVD have the same sign. Furthermore, we show that the compression process is dependent on the considered input profile. Particularly, a condition supposing that the GVD, the FOD and the chirp have the same sign leads to a compression only for the RC pulse in comparison to the previous results obtained for the Gaussian pulse. Numerical simulations, which confirm these features, are presented for the 380-fs input pulses undergoing value in the FOD.
