Efficient pulse excitation of a nonlinear microcavity

Jérémy Oden (1) , Stephane Trebaol (1) , Nicolas Dubreuil (1)

1 Laboratoire Charles Fabry / Manolia

Nonlinear microcavities are known to exhibit an intensity-dependent refractive index. This effect causes a mismatch between the resonance of the cavity and the input pulse frequency, resulting in a limitation of the energy coupling efficiency. We show here that a phase shaping of the input pulse allows to maintain the benefit of light localization.

Mots clés: Nonlinear; microcavity; Free carrier refraction; coherent control; pulse shaping

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Jérémy Oden, Stephane Trebaol, Nicolas Dubreuil. Efficient pulse excitation of a nonlinear microcavity. EOS Annual Meeting 2012, Sep 2012, Aberdeen, United Kingdom. TOM 6 - Nonlinear Photonics, Applications of nonlinear optics, Submission ID: 5955. ⟨hal-00736758⟩