Observation of Temporal Vector Soliton Propagation and Collision in Birefringent Fiber

Darren Rand, Ivan Glesk, Camille-Sophie Brès, Daniel A. Nolan, Xin Chen, Joohyun Koh, Jason W. Fleischer, Ken Steiglitz, and Paul R. Prucnal
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 053902 – Published 1 February 2007

Abstract

We report the experimental observation of temporal vector soliton propagation and collision in a linearly birefringent optical fiber. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is both the first demonstration of temporal vector solitons with two mutually incoherent component fields, and of vector soliton collisions in a Kerr nonlinear medium. Collisions are characterized by an intensity redistribution between the two components, and the experimental results agree with numerical predictions of the coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equation.

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  • Received 15 May 2006

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.053902

©2007 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Darren Rand1,*, Ivan Glesk1, Camille-Sophie Brès1, Daniel A. Nolan2, Xin Chen2, Joohyun Koh2, Jason W. Fleischer1, Ken Steiglitz3, and Paul R. Prucnal1

  • 1Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
  • 2Science and Technology Division, Corning Incorporated, Corning, New York 14831, USA
  • 3Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA

  • *Electronic address: drand@ll.mit.edu

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Vol. 98, Iss. 5 — 2 February 2007

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