Pure-quartic solitons
Optical solitons are pulses that propagate undistorted. Here, the authors demonstrate a class of soliton arising from the interaction of self-phase modulation with quartic dispersion, rather than with quadratic dispersion as occurs in conventional solitons.
Main Authors: | Andrea Blanco-Redondo, C. Martijn de Sterke, J.E. Sipe, Thomas F. Krauss, Benjamin J. Eggleton, Chad Husko |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2016-01-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10427 |
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