Hybrid soliton dynamics in liquid-core fibres.

ABSTRACT: The discovery of optical solitons being understood as temporally and spectrally stationary optical states has enabled numerous innovations among which, most notably, supercontinuum light sources have become widely used in both fundamental and applied sciences. Here, we report on experimental evidence for dynamics of hybrid solitons-a new type of solitary wave, which emerges as a result of a strong non-instantaneous nonlinear response in CS₂-filled liquid-core optical fibres. Octave-spanning supercontinua in the mid-infrared region are observed when pumping the hybrid waveguide with a 460 fs laser (1.95 μm) in the anomalous dispersion regime at nanojoule-level pulse energies. A detailed numerical analysis well correlated with the experiment uncovers clear indicators of emerging h

SUBMITTER: Chemnitz M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5491526 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature