Manipulating dispersive wave emission via temporal sinusoidal phase modulation

Abstract

We report the dispersive wave (DW) emission from the Gaussian pulse with temporal sinusoidal phase (TSP) modulation. The TSP-induced chirp can enhance or cancel the chirp generated by self-phase modulation by properly selecting the modulation parameters of TSP, which can influence the nonlinear propagation of the TSP-modulated pulse. It is shown that the TSP can effectively control the resonant frequency and energy conversion efficiency of the DW emission. We give a modified phase-matching condition to predict the resonant frequencies, which agree with the simulation results obtained by numerically solving the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. The enhanced conversion efficiency of the DWs can be increased up to 28% with only TSP modulation. Our results can extend the application of temporal phase modulation technology for wavelength conversion, and broadband supercontinuum generation.