Spatiotemporal dynamics of femtosecond pulses in nonlinear optical waveguides with material dispersion

Abstract

The effect of the second-order dispersion on the spatiotemporal dynamics of ultrashort pulses in nonlinear waveguides with infinite parabolic and stepped profiles of the refractive index is studied. It is shown that the leakage of radiation from the core to the cladding of step-index waveguides prevents the formation of a steady spatiotemporal distribution of the field. The possibility of compressing light pulses in a dielectric waveguide with a positive group-velocity dispersion is discussed.