Soliton Molecules with Two Frequencies

authored by
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.

Organisation(s)
PhoenixD: Photonics, Optics, and Engineering - Innovation Across Disciplines
Hannover Centre for Optical Technologies (HOT)
Institute of Quantum Optics
External Organisation(s)
St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO)
University of Rostock
University of Iceland
Type
Article
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Volume
123
ISSN
0031-9007
Publication date
13.12.2019
Publication status
Published
Peer reviewed
Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Physics and Astronomy(all)
Electronic version(s)
https://zenodo.org/record/3697876#.Y2TOHoQxmUk (Access: Open)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.243905 (Access: Closed)