Experimental observation of temporal soliton molecules.
A bound state of temporal solitons in optical fibers is predicted numerically and demonstrated experimentally. It is appropriately described as a pair of bright solitons, bound together by a dark soliton. This structure exists only in dispersion-managed fiber and is different from bound solitons in fiber lasers.
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Institut für Physik, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany. martin.stratmann@uni-rostock.de
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