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Hybrid soliton dynamics in liquid-core fibres

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  • Mario Chemnitz

    (Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 9)

  • Martin Gebhardt

    (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15
    Helmholtz-Institute Jena, Froebelstieg 3)

  • Christian Gaida

    (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15)

  • Fabian Stutzki

    (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15)

  • Jens Kobelke

    (Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 9)

  • Jens Limpert

    (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15
    Helmholtz-Institute Jena, Froebelstieg 3
    Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 7)

  • Andreas Tünnermann

    (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15
    Helmholtz-Institute Jena, Froebelstieg 3
    Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 7)

  • Markus A. Schmidt

    (Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 9
    Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Fraunhoferstrasse 6)

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 hybrid solitons, revealing their impact on the bandwidth, onset energy and noise characteristics of the supercontinua. Our study highlights liquid-core fibres as a promising platform for fundamental optics and applications towards novel coherent and reconfigurable light sources.

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  • Mario Chemnitz & Martin Gebhardt & Christian Gaida & Fabian Stutzki & Jens Kobelke & Jens Limpert & Andreas Tünnermann & Markus A. Schmidt, 2017. "Hybrid soliton dynamics in liquid-core fibres," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 8(1), pages 1-11, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:8:y:2017:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-017-00033-5
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00033-5
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