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Pure-quartic solitons

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Date
29/01/2016
Author
Blanco-Redondo, Andrea
de Sterke , C. Martijn
Sipe, J. E.
Krauss, Thomas F.
Eggleton, Benjamin J.
Husko, Chad
Funder
EPSRC
Grant ID
EP/F001622/1
Keywords
QC Physics
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Abstract
Temporal optical solitons have been the subject of intense research due to their intriguing physics and applications in ultrafast optics and supercontinuum generation. Conventional bright optical solitons result from the interaction of anomalous group-velocity dispersion and self-phase modulation. Here we experimentally demonstrate a class of bright soliton arising purely from the interaction of negative fourth-order dispersion and self-phase modulation, which can occur even for normal group-velocity dispersion. We provide experimental and numerical evidence of shape-preserving propagation and flat temporal phase for the fundamental pure-quartic soliton and periodically modulated propagation for the higher-order pure-quartic solitons. We derive the approximate shape of the fundamental pure-quartic soliton and discover that is surprisingly Gaussian, exhibiting excellent agreement with our experimental observations. Our discovery, enabled by precise dispersion engineering, could find applications in communications, frequency combs and ultrafast lasers.
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Blanco-Redondo , A , de Sterke , C M , Sipe , J E , Krauss , T F , Eggleton , B J & Husko , C 2016 , ' Pure-quartic solitons ' , Nature Communications , vol. 7 , 10427 . https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10427
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Nature Communications
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10427
ISSN
2041-1723
Type
Journal article
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This work was supported in part by the Center of Excellence CUDOS (CE110001018), Laureate Fellowship (FL120100029) schemes of the Australian Research Council (ARC) and by The University of Sydney and the Technion collaborative photonics research project funded by The Department of Trade and Investment, Regional Infrastructure and Services of the New South Wales Government and The Technion Society of Australia NSW. T.F.K. was supported by EPSRC UK Silicon Photonics (Grant reference EP/F001428/1). C.H. was supported by the ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher award (DECRA—DE120102069).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9036

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