title: Experimental investigation of the extraction of solitons at the initial stage of the soliton formation process.
abstract: We demonstrate the extraction of a single soliton from a bunch of solitons generated by the pulse breakup effect. The bunch of solitons was generated in a 500-m fiber pumped by 25-ps pulses. For the extraction of single soliton from the bunch we use a nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM). At its output we detected a pulse with full width at half-maximum (FWHM) of 0.99 ps whose autocorrelation trace corresponds to that of a soliton. Our results demonstrate that the suggested method can be useful for soliton generation, and also for investigations of the initial stage of the soliton formation process.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Optica, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Optica y Electrónica, Luis Enrique Erro N 1, Puebla, Pue 72000, México. mabello@inaoep.mx
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bello-Jiménez
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Kuzin
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Pottiez
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ibarra-Escamilla
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Flores-Rosas
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Durán-Sánchez