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Rapid Repetition Rate Fluctuation Measurement of Soliton Crystals in a Microresonator
Published on: December 15, 2021
Spectral interference of frequency-shifted solitons in a photonic-crystal fiber
A A Voronin1, I V Fedotov, A B Fedotov
1Physics Department, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Vorob'evy gory, Moscow, Russia.
Abstract:
Frequency-shifted solitons in a highly nonlinear photonic-crystal fiber (PCF) are shown to give rise to high-visibility interference fringes in PCF output spectra, indicating flat spectral phase profiles of individual solitons in the PCF output. This experimental finding, supported by numerical simulations, suggests a promising method of fiber-format pulse shaping and an attractive technology for few-cycle pulse synthesis through a coherent addition of frequency-shifted solitons generated in a highly nonlinear fiber.
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