Supercontinuum Generation of Higher-Order Solitons by Fission in Photonic Crystal Fibers

A. V. Husakou and J. Herrmann
Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 203901 – Published 24 October 2001
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Abstract

The nonlinear pulse propagation in photonic crystal fibers without slowly varying envelope approximation is studied using an improved variant of first-order wave equation. Supercontinuum generation is shown to be caused by a novel mechanism of spectral broadening through fission of higher-order solitons into redshifted fundamental solitons and blueshifted nonsolitonic radiation. Good agreement with experimental observations is found, and subcycle pulse compression is studied.

  • Received 22 March 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.203901

©2001 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

A. V. Husakou and J. Herrmann*

  • Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Max-Born-Strasse 2a, D-12489 Berlin, Germany

  • *Email address: jherrman@mbi-berlin.de

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Vol. 87, Iss. 20 — 12 November 2001

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