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Pure-quartic solitons

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dc.contributor.authorBlanco-Redondo, Andrea
dc.contributor.authorde Sterke , C. Martijn
dc.contributor.authorSipe, J. E.
dc.contributor.authorKrauss, Thomas F.
dc.contributor.authorEggleton, Benjamin J.
dc.contributor.authorHusko, Chad
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-22T14:30:26Z
dc.date.available2016-06-22T14:30:26Z
dc.date.issued2016-01-29
dc.identifier.citationBlanco-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/ncomms10427en
dc.identifier.issn2041-1723
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 243431735
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: c9ef24b1-548e-4257-9bbd-874b0d905e99
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000369022600010
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 84959294905
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10023/9036
dc.descriptionThis 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).en
dc.description.abstractTemporal 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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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofNature Communicationsen
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material.en
dc.subjectQC Physicsen
dc.subjectNDASen
dc.subject.lccQCen
dc.titlePure-quartic solitonsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorEPSRCen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomyen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10427
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.grantnumberEP/F001622/1en


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