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(Liu et al, Opt. Lett. 26, 358, 2001) II
Left: Measured (a) spectrum and (b) autocorrelation trace at the end J
of a tapered fiber. Right: Numerically simulated (a) evolution of pulse I
spectrum and (b) output spectrum. Back
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Experimental Details
200-fs pulses at 1.3 m were used from a parametric oscillator
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pumped by a Ti:sapphire-laser.
Pulses launched into a 15-cm-long tapered microstructured fiber
(core diameter 23 m).
Most of the pulse energy appeared in a red-shifted soliton that was
considerably narrower than the input pulse (62 fs).
RIFS of up to 350 nm (50 THz) observed experimentally.
RIFS could be tuned as it depends on pulses peak power.
Numerical simulations predict the observed behavior well. JJ
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Physical Mechanism behind large RIFS: Fission of Higher-Order J
Solitons. I
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Fission of Higher-Order Solitons
Input pulses correspond to a higher-order soliton:
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N = (P0T02/|2|)1/2.
Higher-order effects leads to its fission into much narrower
fundamental solitons.
T0 (2N + 1 2k)2
Tk = , Pk = P0.
2N + 1 2k N2
R |2 |z
Spectrum of narrowest soliton shifts most: R = 4T15T 4 .
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2 1 JJ
|Q(z,t)i = (1 fR) hA|Ai |A(z,t)i + (1 fR) hA |Ai |A (z,t)i
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Z t
J
+ fR|A(z,t)i hR(t t 0)hA(z,t 0)|A(z,t 0)i dt 0.
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Vector Nature of Soliton Fission
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R. R. Alfano, Ed., The Supercontinuum Laser II
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Source, 2nd ed. (Springer, New York, 2006). I
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