In this paper, by including Raman scattering in the coupled-mode equations, the scalar modulation instability in photonic crystal fibers is investigated. The evolution of the pump, Stokes and anti-Stokes waves along the fiber as well as the conversion efficiency for two cases, with and without Raman effect, are studied. The effect of anti-Stokes seed and the pump depletion on the evolution of S...

Tunable, coherent radiation in the ultraviolet region has been generated by stimulated Raman scattering, by anti-Stokes Raman lasers, and by frequency-mixing processes based on nonlinear polarizabilities of atomic and molecular systems. Present progress in the development of these laser-driven sources is reviewed, with examples of available systems and their characteristics. Applications in spe...

We present approximate analytical expressions describing nonlinear interaction of two optical waves copropagating inside a silicon waveguide in the presence of linear losses, stimulated Raman scattering, and free-carrier absorption. Our approach avoids the undepleted-pump approximation, which we show to be inadequate to describe accurately the Raman-gain process. Based on our calculations, we p...

It has been shown recently that stimulated Raman radiation can be built up in the off-axis direction using a resonator the axis of which is rotated from the axis of the ruby laser resonator.'S3 The stimulated Brillouin scattering which has been found by Chiao, Townes, and Stoicheff4 shows a characteristic which is different from that of the stimulated Raman scatterings: the stimulated Brillouin...

4. Nonlinear phenomena 4.1. Second-order nonlinear phenomena 4.2. Third-order nonlinear phenomena 4.3. Stimulated Raman scattering 4.4. Stimulated Brillouin scattering 4.5. Four-wave mixing (FWM) 4.6. Self-phase modulation (SPM) 4.7. Cross phase modulation (XPM) 4.8. Theoretical description of GVD phenomenon and self-phase modulation 4.8.1. Nonlinear Schrödinger equation 4.8.2. Inclusion of the...

The nonlinear optical properties of four metallic (Au-, Au/Ag-, Ag-, and Pt-) nanoparticle suspensions in toluene have been studied in both femtosecond and nanosecond regimes. Nonlinear transmission measurements in the femtosecond laser regime revealed two-photon absorption (2PA) induced nonlinear attenuation, while in the nanosecond laser regime a stronger nonlinear attenuation is due to both ...

Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) microscopy is a newly developed label-free chemical imaging technique that overcomes the speed limitation of confocal Raman microscopy while avoiding the nonresonant background problem of coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy. Previous demonstrations have been limited to single Raman band measurements. We present a novel modulation multiplexin...