Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE
Phase properties of the contradirectional nonlinearly asymmetric coupler
Ladislav Mišta, Jaroslav Řeháček, Jan Peřina
Abstract
We examine phase properties of the contradirectional nonlinear asymmetric coupler with the second harmonic generation. We derive a phase distribution using the concept of phase space. An interesting behavior of the linear mode, namely bifurcation of the phase distribution and phase switching are demonstrated. It is shown that light initially in the coherent state approximately maintains its phase properties during amplification through its Poissonian photon-number statistics are not conserved.© (1999) COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.