Soliton explosion control by higher-order effects
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Generation and Coherent Control of Pulsed Quantum Frequency Combs
Published on: June 8, 2018
Sofia C V Latas1, Mário F S Ferreira
1Department of Physics, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal.
Abstract:
We numerically study the impact of self-frequency shift, self-steepening, and third-order dispersion on the erupting soliton solutions of the quintic complex Ginzburg-Landau equation. We find that the pulse explosions can be completely eliminated if these higher-order effects are properly conjugated two by two. In particular, we observe that positive third-order dispersion can compensate the self-frequency shift effect, whereas negative third-order dispersion can compensate the self-steepening effect. A stable propagation of a fixed-shape pulse is found under the simultaneous presence of the three higher-order effects.
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