Controlling the temporal trajectory of solitons in silver nanoparticle doped fibre

authored by

Surajit Bose, Günter Steinmeyer, Uwe Morgner, Ayhan Demircan

Abstract

Silver nanoparticle doped photonic crystal fibres (SNPCF) exhibit negative Kerr nonlinearity over certain wavelength ranges [1]. At some specific wavelength, the nonlinearity vanishes representing a zero-nonlinearity (ZN) point, allowing for new propagation dynamics of solitons due to controllable interaction of dispersion and nonlinearity [2]. Here we show that the presence of a ZN point significantly influences the temporal trajectory of a soliton during the process of supercontinuum (SC) generation. The input pulse launched in the anomalous dispersion domain but with negative nonlinearity, close to zero dispersion wavelength (ZDW), generates bright solitons exhibiting complex acceleration, deceleration, and shaping behaviour, due to Raman effect, nonlinear dispersion and the four-wave mixing interaction processes. We study the variations of dynamics for different ZN points demonstrating the efficient control of soliton trajectories.

Organisation(s)

Institute of Quantum Optics
PhoenixD: Photonics, Optics, and Engineering - Innovation Across Disciplines
Hannover Centre for Optical Technologies (HOT)

External Organisation(s)

Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy im Forschungsbund Berlin e.V. (MBI)

Type

Poster

Publication date

2019

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Mechanics of Materials

Electronic version(s)

https://www.osapublishing.org/abstract.cfm?uri=eqec-2019-ef_p_16&origin=search (Access: Unknown)