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Rapid Repetition Rate Fluctuation Measurement of Soliton Crystals in a Microresonator
Published on: December 15, 2021
Dark solitons under higher-order dispersion
Abstract:
We show theoretically that stable dark solitons can exist in the presence of pure quartic dispersion, and also in the presence of both quadratic and quartic dispersive effects, displaying a much greater variety of possible solutions and dynamics than for pure quadratic dispersion. The interplay of the two dispersion orders may lead to oscillatory non-vanishing tails, which enables the possibility of bound, potentially stable, multi-soliton states. Dark soliton-like states that connect to low-amplitude oscillations are also shown to be possible. Dynamical evolution results corroborate the stability picture obtained, and possible avenues for dark soliton generation are explored.
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