Three Sources and Three Component Parts of the Concept of Dissipative Solitons

Akhmediev, Nail; Ankiewicz, Adrian

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-78217-9_1

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“…7 Recently, the soliton pairs named bound states or soliton molecules have been extensively demonstrated, both in experiments and theories. [9][10][11][12][13] Grapinet and Grelu have given the vibrating soliton pairs in a mode-locked laser cavity which coincide with the experimental results. 9 Ortaç et al 10 have given the soliton molecules with independently evolving phase in a mode-locked fiber laser in experiments, which conforms the theory demonstrated by Zavyalov et al 11 In a normal dispersion regime, dissipative solitons and dissipative soliton molecules have also been reported, both in experiments and numerical analysis.…”

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Experimental and theoretical study of soliton pairs in passively mode-locked fiber lasers

2011

Opt. Eng

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The bound state solitons have been observed in the passively mode-locked fiber laser. The spectra are modulated due to interaction of the pulses per round trip. Two bound states have an equal shoulder as seen from the autocorrelation trace and three bound states have the two pairs of shoulder in the autocorrelation trace. The numerical results confirm the experimental results. The unstable soliton pairs can also be observed in the experiments. The pulse pairs with strong strength in the cavity can be potentially applied in the optical communication systems. C 2011 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE).

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Experimental and theoretical study of soliton pairs in passively mode-locked fiber lasers

2011

Opt. Eng

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“…Theoretically predicted in Ref. [4] and first reported to spontaneously form in microresonators made from crystalline MgF 2 , DKS have been observed in different types of material systems including silica-on-silicon [22] and silicon nitride [6] (Si 3 N 4 ) as well as silicon [23]. Of particular interest are single-soliton states, which consist of only one ultra-short pulse circulating around the cavity, leading to a broadband comb spectrum with a smooth and numerically predictable [3] envelope given by…”

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“…Here, we show that solitons may experience a comeback in optical communications, this time not as a competitor, but as a key element of massively parallel WDM. Instead of encoding data on the soliton itself, we exploit continuously circulating dissipative Kerr solitons (DKS) in a microresonator [3,4]. DKS are generated in an integrated silicon nitride microresonator [5] by four-photon interactions mediated by Kerr nonlinearity, leading to low-noise, spectrally smooth and broadband optical frequency combs [6].…”

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Microresonator-based solitons for massively parallel coherent optical communications

Marin-Palomo

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Optical solitons are waveforms that preserve their shape while propagating, relying on a balance of dispersion and nonlinearity [1,2]. Soliton-based data transmission schemes were investigated in the 1980s, promising to overcome the limitations imposed by dispersion of optical fibers. These approaches, however, were eventually abandoned in favor of wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) schemes that are easier to implement and offer improved scalability to higher data rates. Here, we show that solitons may experience a comeback in optical communications, this time not as a competitor, but as a key element of massively parallel WDM. Instead of encoding data on the soliton itself, we exploit continuously circulating dissipative Kerr solitons (DKS) in a microresonator [3,4]. DKS are generated in an integrated silicon nitride microresonator [5] by four-photon interactions mediated by Kerr nonlinearity, leading to low-noise, spectrally smooth and broadband optical frequency combs [6]. In our experiments, we use two interleaved soliton Kerr combs to trans-mit a data stream of more than 50 Tbit/s on a total of 179 individual optical carriers that span the entire telecommunication C and L bands. Equally important, we demonstrate coherent detection of a WDM data stream by using a pair of microresonator Kerr soliton combs one as a multi-wavelength light source at the transmitter, and another one as a corresponding local oscillator (LO) at the receiver. This approach exploits the scalability advantages of microresonator soliton comb sources for massively parallel optical communications both at the transmitter and receiver side. Taken together, the results prove the significant potential of these sources to replace arrays of continuous-wave lasers in high-speed communications. In combination with advanced spatial multiplexing schemes [7,8] and highly integrated silicon photonic circuits [9], DKS combs may bring chip-scale petabit/s transceivers into reach.The first observation of solitons in optical fibers [2] in 1980 was immediately followed by major research efforts to harness such waveforms for long-haul communications [1]. In these schemes, data was encoded on soliton pulses by simple amplitude modulation using on-off-keying (OOK). However, even though the viability of the approach was experimentally demonstrated by transmission over one million kilometres [10], the vision of soliton-based communications was ultimately hindered by difficulties in achieving shape-preserving propagation in real transmission systems [1] and by the fact that nonlinear interactions intrinsically prevent dense packing of soliton pulses in either the time or frequency domain. Moreover, with the advent of wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM), line rates in long-haul communication systems could be increased by rather simple parallel transmission of data streams with lower symbol rates, which are less dispersion sensitive. Consequently, soliton-based communication schemes have moved out of focus over the last two decades. More recently, frequ...

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“…In parallel, spatially localized structures in dissipative systems have been a subject of intense research in different physical systems such as granular media [6], gas discharge [7] and biological [8] or optical systems (see [9] and references therein). Their fundamental properties, bistability and mutual independence (ie, several such structures can be present or not independently of others depending only on initial conditions), are related to the presence of dissipation, and therefore they often receive, in optics, the name of cavity solitons.…”

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Bistable and Addressable Localized Vortices in Semiconductor Lasers

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We demonstrate experimentally that localized emission states in coupled broad-area semiconductor lasers can carry a finite orbital angular momentum. The resulting structures therefore possess the chirality of optical vortices together with the properties of localized structures in dissipative systems, namely, the coexistence with a low intensity homogeneous emission and the mutual independence. These results open the way to the realization of arrays of optically addressable and bistable chiral laser pixels.

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Three Sources and Three Component Parts of the Concept of Dissipative Solitons

Cited by 66 publications

References 41 publications

Experimental and theoretical study of soliton pairs in passively mode-locked fiber lasers

Experimental and theoretical study of soliton pairs in passively mode-locked fiber lasers

Microresonator-based solitons for massively parallel coherent optical communications

Bistable and Addressable Localized Vortices in Semiconductor Lasers

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