Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

Optical soliton molecular complexes in a passively mode-locked fibre laser

  • Z. Q. Wang,
  • K. Nithyanandan,
  • A. Coillet,
  • P. Tchofo-Dinda,
  • Ph. Grelu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08755-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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It has recently been shown that optical solitons can form stably bound states, so-called soliton molecules. Here, Wang et al. demonstrate stable soliton molecule complexes and explore the different bonds represented by the inter- and intra-molecular coupling.