Observation of temporal vector soliton propagation and collision in birefringent fiber.
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.
Rand
Darren
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Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA. drand@ll.mit.edu
Glesk
Ivan
I
Brès
Camille-Sophie
CS
Nolan
Daniel A
DA
Chen
Xin
X
Koh
Joohyun
J
Fleischer
Jason W
JW
Steiglitz
Ken
K
Prucnal
Paul R
PR