Pure-quartic solitons

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Andrea Blanco-Redondo, C. Martijn de Sterke, J.E. Sipe, Thomas F. Krauss, Benjamin J. Eggleton, Chad Husko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10427