Pure-quartic solitons

Andrea Blanco-Redondo; C. Martijn de Sterke; J.E. Sipe; Thomas F. Krauss; Benjamin J. Eggleton; Chad Husko

doi:10.1038/ncomms10427

Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

Pure-quartic solitons

Andrea Blanco-Redondo,
C. Martijn de Sterke,
J.E. Sipe,
Thomas F. Krauss,
Benjamin J. Eggleton,
Chad Husko

Affiliations

Andrea Blanco-Redondo: Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS), School of Physics, The University of Sydney
C. Martijn de Sterke: Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS), School of Physics, The University of Sydney
J.E. Sipe: Department of Physics, University of Toronto
Thomas F. Krauss: Department of Physics, University of York
Benjamin J. Eggleton: Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS), School of Physics, The University of Sydney
Chad Husko: Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS), School of Physics, The University of Sydney

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10427
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Optical solitons are pulses that propagate undistorted. Here, the authors demonstrate a class of soliton arising from the interaction of self-phase modulation with quartic dispersion, rather than with quadratic dispersion as occurs in conventional solitons.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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