Optical Gap solitons and Truncated Nonlinear Bloch Waves in Temporal Lattices

Bersch C, Onishchukov G, Peschel U (2012)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2012

Journal

Physical Review Letters American Physical Society

Book Volume: 109

Article Number: 093903

Journal Issue: 9

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.093903

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate the formation and stable propagation of various types of discrete temporal solitons in an optical fiber system. Pulses interacting with a time-periodic potential and defocusing nonlinearity are shown to form gap solitons and nonlinear truncated Bloch waves. Multi-pulse solitons with defects, as well as novel structures composed of a strong soliton riding on a weaker truncated nonlinear Bloch wave are shown to propagate over up to eleven coupling lengths. The nonlinear dynamics of all pulse structures is monitored over the full propagation distance which provides detailed insight into the soliton dynamics.

Authors with CRIS profile

Christoph Bersch Professur für Experimentalphysik Georgy Onishchukov
Ulf Peschel Professur für Experimentalphysik

Additional Organisation(s)

Exzellenz-Cluster Engineering of Advanced Materials

Involved external institutions

Max-Planck-Institut für die Physik des Lichts (MPL) / Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Bersch, C., Onishchukov, G., & Peschel, U. (2012). Optical Gap solitons and Truncated Nonlinear Bloch Waves in Temporal Lattices. Physical Review Letters, 109(9). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.093903

MLA:

Bersch, Christoph, Georgy Onishchukov, and Ulf Peschel. "Optical Gap solitons and Truncated Nonlinear Bloch Waves in Temporal Lattices." Physical Review Letters 109.9 (2012).

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