title: Carrier-envelope phase slip of ultrashort dispersion-managed solitons.
abstract: The carrier-envelope phase slip of an ultrashort pulse circulating in a mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser is analyzed. The laser cavity is modeled by a dispersion- and nonlinearity-managed nonlinear Schrödinger equation. The combined contributions to the phase slip induced by nonlinear phase and nonlinear dispersion are found to approach zero for strong dispersion maps. The dependence of the slip on third-order dispersion is found as well. The analytical results are verified using numerical simulations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0526, USA.
authors.forename: Mark J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Ablowitz
authors.forename: Boaz
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ilan
authors.forename: Steven T
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Cundiff