Simultaneous mid-infrared pulse generation and shaping in engineered quasi-phase-matched nonlinear crystals

Abstract Numerical simulations demonstrate that mid-infrared pulses are arbitrarily shaped during the differential frequency mixing of two femtosecond near-infrared pulses propagating in an engineered quasi-periodic poled medium with optical nonlinearity and group velocity dispersion. Shaped pulses, including linearly chirped pulses and pulse trains, are generated with high conversion efficiencies.