Shaping nonlinear optical response using nonlocal forward Brillouin interactions

Nonlocal nonlinear magneto-optical response of a magnetoplasmonic crystal

Experimental reconstruction of nonlocal response of thermal nonlinear optical media.

We study experimentally and theoretically the nonlocal response of a medium with thermal nonlinearity and show that despite its inherently infinite range it can be accurately characterized by a well-defined nonlocal response function. We retrieve the shape of this function and analyze its transformation with the change of boundaries.

A Two-Dimensional Nonlinear Nonlocal Feed-Forward Cochlear Model and Time Domain Computation of Multitone Interactions

A two-dimensional cochlear model is presented, which couples the classical second order partial differential equations of the basilar membrane (BM) with a discrete feed-forward (FF) outer hair cell (OHC) model for enhanced sensitivity. The enhancement (gain) factor in the model depends on BM displacement in a nonlinear nonlocal manner in order to capture multifrequency sound interactions and co...

Enhancement of Brillouin slow-light in optical fibers through optical pulse shaping

The impact of pulse shape is studied in order to enhance time delaying in Brillouin slow-light. An exponential-like pulse with 14-ns FWHM duration is delayed up to 31-ns in a 27 MHz wide Brillouin resonance. ©2008 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (060.4370) Nonlinear optics, fibers; (290.5900) Scattering, stimulated Brillouin; (350.5500) Propagation

Near-forward Stimulated Brillouin Scattering

LLE Review, Volume 72 177 In stimulated Brillouin scattering1 (SBS) an incident (pump) light wave is scattered by the electron-density fluctuations associated with an ion-acoustic (sound) wave. This process generates a frequency-upshifted (anti-Stokes) light wave and a frequency-downshifted (Stokes) light wave. For most scattering angles the anti-Stokes wave is driven nonresonantly and can be n...