The amplification and phase modulation of a surface electromagnetic wave propagating along a helical trajectory in a cylindrical semiconductor waveguide under the condition of phase matching with a longitudinal space-charge wave are considered. The evolution of a phase-modulated wave after passing through a semiconductor waveguide is studied and the conditions leading to the transformation of an initially stationary wave into a sequence of optical pulses with a terahertz repetition rate are determined.
In this work we investigated the possibility of generating subpicosecond pulses as a result of a modulation instability of continuous wave signals with a large modulation depth. In our case a large modulation depth of a continuous wave is achieved by using a cylindrical waveguides with a running refractive index wave (RRIW). Here, the entire cascade fiber system is a cylindrical waveguides RRIW connected in series with a section of passive fiber with anomalous dispersion. To achieve high peak power values in the generated pulse train, it is necessary to add a section of active fiber with normal dispersion to the stage. It is shown that, as a result of the regime of a induce modulation instability, pulses with a peak power that are orders of magnitude higher than the power of the incoming pump wave can be formed.
In this paper it was investigated the dynamics of frequency-modulated pulses in fiber cascades, consisting of a fibers with sequentially formed refractive index gratings with different periods. It is shown that the proposed scheme can be used to generate picosecond and subpicosecond pulses with peak powers of the order of ~1 MW. In the considered cascade structures, it is shown that it is possible to form stable sequences of pico- and subpicosecond pulses with a subterahertz repetition rate directly from continuous wave signals as a result of a modulation instability regime.
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