title: Observation of temporal vector soliton propagation and collision in birefringent fiber.
abstract: We report the experimental observation of temporal vector soliton propagation and collision in a linearly birefringent optical fiber. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is both the first demonstration of temporal vector solitons with two mutually incoherent component fields, and of vector soliton collisions in a Kerr nonlinear medium. Collisions are characterized by an intensity redistribution between the two components, and the experimental results agree with numerical predictions of the coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA. drand@ll.mit.edu
authors.forename: Darren
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rand
authors.forename: Ivan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Glesk
authors.forename: Camille-Sophie
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Brès
authors.forename: Daniel A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Nolan
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Joohyun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Koh
authors.forename: Jason W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Fleischer
authors.forename: Ken
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Steiglitz
authors.forename: Paul R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Prucnal