Soliton Molecules with Two Frequencies

verfasst von

Oliver Melchert, Stephanie Willms, Surajit Bose, Alexey Yulin, Bernhard Roth, Fedor Mitschke, Uwe Morgner, Ihar Babushkin, Ayhan Demircan

Abstract

We demonstrate a peculiar mechanism for the formation of bound states of light pulses of substantially different optical frequencies, in which pulses are strongly bound across a vast frequency gap. This is enabled by a propagation constant with two separate regions of anomalous dispersion. The resulting soliton compound exhibits moleculelike binding energy, vibration, and radiation and can be understood as a mutual trapping providing a striking analogy to quantum mechanics. The phenomenon constitutes an intriguing case of two light waves mutually affecting and controlling each other.

Organisationseinheit(en)

PhoenixD: Simulation, Fabrikation und Anwendung optischer Systeme
Hannoversches Zentrum für Optische Technologien (HOT)
Institut für Quantenoptik

Externe Organisation(en)

St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO)
Universität Rostock
University of Iceland

Typ

Artikel

Journal

Physical Review Letters

Band

123

ISSN

0031-9007

Publikationsdatum

13.12.2019

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Physik und Astronomie (insg.)

Elektronische Version(en)

https://zenodo.org/record/3697876#.Y2TOHoQxmUk (Zugang: Offen)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.243905 (Zugang: Geschlossen)