Experimental investigation of the extraction of solitons at the initial stage of the soliton formation process

We demonstrate the extraction of a single soliton from a bunch of solitons generated by the pulse breakup effect. The bunch of solitons was generated in a 500-m fiber pumped by 25-ps pulses. For the extraction of single soliton from the bunch we use a nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM). At its out...

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Autores: MIGUEL ANGEL BELLO JIMENEZ, EVGENY KUZIN, BALDEMAR IBARRA ESCAMILLA, ARIEL FLORES ROSAS
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:México
Recursos:Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica
Repositorio:Repositorio Institucional del INAOE
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:inaoe.repositorioinstitucional.mx:1009/1422
Acesso em linha:http://inaoe.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/handle/1009/1422
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:info:eu-repo/classification/Inspec/Nonlinear optics, fibers
info:eu-repo/classification/Inspec/Pulse propagation and temporal solitons.
info:eu-repo/classification/cti/1
info:eu-repo/classification/cti/22
info:eu-repo/classification/cti/2209
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Resumo:We demonstrate the extraction of a single soliton from a bunch of solitons generated by the pulse breakup effect. The bunch of solitons was generated in a 500-m fiber pumped by 25-ps pulses. For the extraction of single soliton from the bunch we use a nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM). At its output we detected a pulse with full width at half-maximum (FWHM) of 0.99 ps whose autocorrelation trace corresponds to that of a soliton. Our results demonstrate that the suggested method can be useful for soliton generation, and also for investigations of the initial stage of the soliton formation process.