Colloquium: Looking at a soliton through the prism of optical supercontinuum

By D. Skryabin, Andrey Gorbach. 2010

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A traditional view on solitons in optical fibers as robust particlelike structures suited for information transmission has been significantly altered and broadened over the past decade when solitons have been found to play the major role in generation of octave broad supercontinuum spectra in photonic crystal and other types of optical fibers. This remarkable spectral broadening is achieved through complex processes of dispersive radiation being scattered from, emitted, and transformed by solitons. Thus solitons have emerged as the major players in nonlinear frequency conversion in optical fibers. Unexpected analogies of these processes have been found with dynamics of ultracold atoms and ocean waves. This Colloquium focuses on recent understanding and new insights into physics of soliton-radiation interaction and supercontinuum generation.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Solitons in nonlinear lattices (2010, background): “One of the important nonlinear-optical effect observed in the PCFs was the generation of the supercontinuum (see Ranka, Windeler, and Stentz, 2000, and a reviews by Dudley, Genty, and Coen, 2006, and Skryabin and Gorbach, 2010).”
Optical wave turbulence: Towards a unified nonequilibrium thermodynamic formulation of statistical nonlinear optics (2014, methodology): “Besides the theories describing the interaction between individual soliton pulses and dispersive waves [348], we may quote the effective three-wave mixing theory and the underlying first-Born approximation successfully applied to describe femtosecond SC generation in different configurations [349,35”
Observation of bright polariton solitons in a semiconductor microcavity (2011, methodology): “The TOPO wavepacket created by the writing beam can be considered as a condensate excitation, which has the properties of as a diffusive Goldstone mode [3].”