title: Observation of antisymmetric dispersion-managed solitons in a mode-locked laser.
abstract: We report experimental evidence of antisymmetric solitons in a mode-locked fiber laser with a strong dispersion map. A dispersion-managed soliton breathes as it traverses the dispersion map, and the antisymmetric dispersion-managed soliton can be considered a tightly bound soliton pair with pi phase difference between the component solitons. The antisymmetric soliton is observed only at particular values of the net cavity dispersion.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA. cyc26@cornell.edu
authors.forename: Andy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chong
authors.forename: William H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Renninger
authors.forename: Frank W
authors.initials: FW
authors.lastname: Wise
mesh_terms: D007834:Lasers; D008962:Models, Theoretical