Experimental Evidence for Supercontinuum Generation by Fission of Higher-Order Solitons in Photonic Fibers

J. Herrmann, U. Griebner, N. Zhavoronkov, A. Husakou, D. Nickel, J. C. Knight, W. J. Wadsworth, P. St. J. Russell, and G. Korn
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 173901 – Published 11 April 2002
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Abstract

We report on an experimental study of supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fibers with low-intensity femtosecond pulses, which provides evidence for a novel spectral broadening mechanism. The observed results agree with our theoretical calculations carried out without making the slowly varying envelope approximation. Peculiarities of the measured spectra and their theoretical explanation demonstrate that the reason for the white-light generation in photonic crystal fibers is fission of higher-order solitons into redshifted fundamental solitons and blueshifted nonsolitonic radiation.

  • Received 15 November 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.173901

©2002 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

J. Herrmann1,*, U. Griebner1, N. Zhavoronkov1, A. Husakou1, D. Nickel1, J. C. Knight2, W. J. Wadsworth2, P. St. J. Russell2, and G. Korn1,†

  • 1Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Max-Born-Strasse 2a, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
  • 2Department of Physics, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom

  • *Electronic address: jherrman@mbi-berlin.de
  • Also at Katana Technologies GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Ring 7, 14532 Kleinmachnow, Germany.

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Vol. 88, Iss. 17 — 29 April 2002

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