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Rapid Repetition Rate Fluctuation Measurement of Soliton Crystals in a Microresonator
Published on: December 15, 2021
Disturbance of soliton pulse propagation from higher-order dispersive waveguides
Matthew Marko1, Andrzej Veitia, Xiujian Li
1Navy Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Joint Base, McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, Lakehurst, New Jersey 08733, USA. matthew.marko@navy.mil
Abstract:
Optical soliton pulses offer many applications within optical communication systems, but by definition a soliton is only subjected to second-order anomalous group-velocity-dispersion; an understanding of higher-order dispersion is necessary for practical implementation of soliton pulses. A numerical model of a waveguide was developed using the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, with parameters set to ensure the input pulse energy would be equal to the fundamental soliton energy. Higher-order group-velocity-dispersion was gradually increased, for various temporal widths and waveguide dispersions. A minimum pulse duration of 100 fs was determined to be necessary for fundamental soliton pulse propagation in practical photonic crystal waveguides.
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