| Autor: |
Antoine F. J. Runge, Y. Long Qiang, Tristram J. Alexander, M. Z. Rafat, Darren D. Hudson, Andrea Blanco-Redondo, C. Martijn de Sterke |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2021 |
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| Zdroj: |
Physical Review Research, Vol 3, Iss 1, p 013166 (2021) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2643-1564 |
| DOI: |
10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.013166 |
| Popis: |
Temporal solitons are optical pulses that arise from the balance of negative group-velocity dispersion and self-phase modulation. For decades, only quadratic dispersion was considered with higher order dispersion often thought of as a nuisance. Following the recent observation of pure-quartic solitons, we here provide experimental and numerical evidence for an infinite hierarchy of solitons that balance self-phase modulation and arbitrary negative pure, even-order dispersion. Specifically, we experimentally demonstrate the existence of solitons with pure-sextic (β_{6}), -octic (β_{8}), and -decic (β_{10}) dispersion, limited only by the performance of our components, and we numerically show the existence of solitons involving pure 16th-order dispersion. These results broaden the fundamental understanding of solitons and present avenues to engineer ultrafast pulses in nonlinear optics and its applications. |
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