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- Title
Conditions for walk-off soliton generation in a multimode fiber.
- Authors
Zitelli, Mario; Mangini, Fabio; Ferraro, Mario; Sidelnikov, Oleg; Wabnitz, Stefan
- Abstract
It has been recently demonstrated that multimode solitons are unstable objects which evolve, in the range of hundreds of nonlinearity lengths, into stable single-mode solitons carried by the fundamental mode. We show experimentally and by numerical simulations that femtosecond multimode solitons composed by non-degenerate modes have unique properties: when propagating in graded-index fibers, their pulsewidth and energy do not depend on the input pulsewidth, but only on input coupling conditions and linear dispersive properties of the fiber, hence on their wavelength. Because of these properties, spatiotemporal solitons composed by non-degenerate modes with pulsewidths longer than a few hundreds of femtoseconds cannot be generated in graded-index fibers. Controlling the generation of solitons in multimode photonic systems may boost the performance of optical communication networks. Here, the conditions under which an experimentally observed walk-off multimode soliton is generated are revealed.
- Subjects
SOLITONS; FEMTOSECOND lasers; PULSE width modulation transformers; SPATIOTEMPORAL processes; PHOTONIC switching systems
- Publication
Communications Physics, 2021, Vol 4, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2399-3650
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s42005-021-00687-0