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Wu L, Chen W, Shen M. Incoherently coupled two-color vector dark solitons in self-defocusing media. OPTICS EXPRESS 2018; 26:32194-32204. [PMID: 30650684 DOI: 10.1364/oe.26.032194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2018] [Accepted: 11/12/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We investigate the stability of incoherently coupled two-color vector dark and grey solitons in a nonlinear self-defocusing media. We employ the variational technique to derive approximate solutions of the two-color vector dark solitons. The relations between the soliton parameters and the representation of the transverse velocities of the vector solitons are analytically obtained. We also demonstrate numerically the propagation dynamics of the two-color vector solitons, which shows that the two-color vector dark and grey solitons with different wavelengths are always unstable.
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Gilles M, Bony PY, Garnier J, Picozzi A, Guasoni M, Fatome J. Polarization domain walls in optical fibres as topological bits for data transmission. NATURE PHOTONICS 2017; 11:102-107. [PMID: 28168000 PMCID: PMC5291308 DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2016.262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2016] [Accepted: 11/29/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Domain walls are topological defects which occur at symmetry-breaking phase transitions. While domain walls have been intensively studied in ferromagnetic materials, where they nucleate at the boundary of neighbouring regions of oppositely aligned magnetic dipoles, their equivalent in optics have not been fully explored so far. Here, we experimentally demonstrate the existence of a universal class of polarization domain walls in the form of localized polarization knots in conventional optical fibres. We exploit their binding properties for optical data transmission beyond the Kerr limits of normally dispersive fibres. In particular, we demonstrate how trapping energy in well-defined train of polarization domain walls allows undistorted propagation of polarization knots at a rate of 28 GHz along a 10 km length of normally dispersive optical fibre. These results constitute the first experimental observation of kink-antikink solitary wave propagation in nonlinear fibre optics.
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- M. Gilles
- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne (ICB), UMR 6303 CNRS - Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 Dijon, France
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- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne (ICB), UMR 6303 CNRS - Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 Dijon, France
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- Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires, University of Paris VII, 75251 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne (ICB), UMR 6303 CNRS - Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 Dijon, France
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- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne (ICB), UMR 6303 CNRS - Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 Dijon, France
- Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
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- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne (ICB), UMR 6303 CNRS - Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 Dijon, France
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Liu J, Li X, Zhang S, Zhang H, Yan P, Han M, Pang Z, Yang Z. Polarization domain wall pulses in a microfiber-based topological insulator fiber laser. Sci Rep 2016; 6:29128. [PMID: 27381942 PMCID: PMC4933917 DOI: 10.1038/srep29128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2016] [Accepted: 06/15/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Topological insulators (TIs), are novel two-dimension materials, which can act as effective saturable absorbers (SAs) in a fiber laser. Moreover, based on the evanescent wave interaction, deposition of the TI on microfiber would create an effective SA, which has combined advantages from the strong nonlinear optical response in TI material together with the sufficiently-long-range interaction length in fiber taper. By using this type of TI SA, various scalar solitons have been obtained in fiber lasers. However, a single mode fiber always exhibits birefringence, and hence can support two orthogonal degenerate modes. Here we investigate experimentally the vector characters of a TI SA fiber laser. Using the saturated absorption and the high nonlinearity of the TI SA, a rich variety of dynamic states, including polarization-locked dark pulses and their harmonic mode locked counterparts, polarization-locked noise-like pulses and their harmonic mode locked counterparts, incoherently coupled polarization domain wall pulses, including bright square pulses, bright-dark pulse pairs, dark pulses and bright square pulse-dark pulse pairs are all observed with different pump powers and polarization states.
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- Jingmin Liu
- College of Physics Science and Information Engineering, Hebei Advanced Thin Films Laboratory, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang 050024, China
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- College of Physics Science and Information Engineering, Hebei Advanced Thin Films Laboratory, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang 050024, China
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- College of Physics Science and Information Engineering, Hebei Advanced Thin Films Laboratory, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang 050024, China
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- Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems of Ministry of Education and Guangdong Province, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China
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- Shenzhen key laboratory of laser engineering, College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China
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- College of Physics Science and Information Engineering, Hebei Advanced Thin Films Laboratory, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang 050024, China
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- College of Physics Science and Information Engineering, Hebei Advanced Thin Films Laboratory, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang 050024, China
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- College of Physics Science and Information Engineering, Hebei Advanced Thin Films Laboratory, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang 050024, China
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Aranson IS, Pismen LM. Interaction of vortices in a complex vector field and stability of a "Vortex molecule". PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2000; 84:634-637. [PMID: 11017334 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.84.634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/1999] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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We consider interaction of vortices in the vector complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (CVGLE). In the limit of small field coupling, it is found analytically that the interaction between well-separated defects in two different fields is long ranged, in contrast to the interaction between defects in the same field which falls off exponentially. In a certain region of parameters of CVGLE, we find stable rotating bound states of two defects-a "vortex molecule."
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- IS Aranson
- Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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Ostrovskaya EA, Kivshar YS. Nonlinear theory of soliton-induced waveguides. OPTICS LETTERS 1998; 23:1268-1270. [PMID: 18087494 DOI: 10.1364/ol.23.001268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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We develop a nonlinear theory of soliton-induced waveguides that describe a finite-amplitude probe beam guided by a spatial dark soliton in a saturable nonlinear medium. We suggest an effective way to control the interaction of these soliton-induced waveguides and also show that, in sharp contrast with scalar dark solitons, the dark-soliton waveguides can attract each other and even form stationary bound states.
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Slepyan GY, Maksimenko SA, Bass FG, Lakhtakia A. Nonlinear electromagnetics in chiral media: Self-action of waves. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL PHYSICS, PLASMAS, FLUIDS, AND RELATED INTERDISCIPLINARY TOPICS 1995; 52:1049-1058. [PMID: 9963510 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.52.1049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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