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Generation and Coherent Control of Pulsed Quantum Frequency Combs
Published on: June 8, 2018
Generation, compression, and propagation of pulse trains in the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with distributed
Luyun Wang1, Lu Li, Zhonghao Li
1College of Physics and Electronics Engineering, and Institute of Theoretical Physics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China.
Abstract:
The generalized nonlinear Schrödinger model with distributed dispersion, nonlinearity, and gain or loss is considered and the explicit, analytical solutions describing the dynamics of bright solitons on a continuous-wave background are obtained in quadratures. Then, the generation, compression, and propagation of pulse trains are discussed in detail. The numerical results show that solitons can be compressed by choosing the appropriate control fiber system, and pulse trains generated by modulation instability can propagate undistorsted along fibers with distributed parameters by controlling appropriately the energy of each pulse in the pulse train.
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