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Fourth-order dispersion mediated solitonic radiations in HC-PCF cladding
F Benabid1, F Biancalana, P S Light
1Department of Physics, University of Bath, Bath, UK. F.Benabid@bath.ac.uk
Abstract:
We observe experimentally, for the first time to our knowledge, the simultaneous emission of two strong conjugate resonant dispersive waves by optical solitons. The effect is observed in a small waveguiding glass feature within the cladding of a Kagome hollow-core photonic crystal fiber. We demonstrate theoretically that the phenomenon is attributed to the unusually high fourth-order dispersion coefficient of the waveguiding feature.
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