The bright prospects of optical solitons after 50 years

A Blanco-Redondo, CM de Sterke, C Xu, S Wabnitz… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The idea of temporal solitons in optical fibres as a means to compensate for the chromatic
dispersion-induced temporal broadening of pulses via the intensity-dependent refractive …

Advances and challenges of ultrafast fiber lasers in 2–4 µm mid‐infrared spectral regions

Y Zhang, K Wu, Z Guang, B Guo, D Qiao… - Laser & Photonics …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Mid‐infrared (mid‐IR) ultrafast lasers are widely employed in biomedicine,
molecular spectroscopy, material processing, and nonlinear optics. With the improvement of …

Pure-high-even-order dispersion bound solitons complexes in ultra-fast fiber lasers

Y Han, B Gao, H Wen, C Ma, J Huo, Y Li… - Light: Science & …, 2024 - nature.com
Temporal solitons have been the focus of much research due to their fascinating physical
properties. These solitons can form bound states, which are fundamentally crucial modes in …

[HTML][HTML] Pure-quartic solitons and their generalizations—Theory and experiments

CM de Sterke, AFJ Runge, DD Hudson… - APL Photonics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Solitons are wave packets that can propagate without changing shape by balancing
nonlinear effects with the effects of dispersion. In photonics, they have underpinned …

Pulsating dynamics in a pure-quartic soliton fiber laser

ZX Zhang, M Luo, JX Chen, LH Chen, M Liu, AP Luo… - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We numerically investigate the pulsating dynamics of pure-quartic solitons (PQSs) in a
passively mode-locked fiber laser. The bifurcation diagrams show that the PQS can alternate …

Pure-quartic soliton attracted state and multi-soliton molecules in mode-locked fiber lasers

JH Zhang, HQ Qin, ZZ Si, YH Jia, NA Kudryashov… - Chaos, Solitons & …, 2024 - Elsevier
This article explores the dynamic model of pure-quartic solitons (PQSs) in mode-locked fiber
lasers. Firstly, the formation and dynamic behavior of the PQS attracted state in fiber lasers …

Pure-quartic Bragg solitons in chip-scale nonlinear integrated circuits

J Choi, BU Sohn, E Sahin, GFR Chen, P **ng, DKT Ng… - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Pure-quartic solitons have gained significant attention recently due to their ability to achieve
higher energy than classical solitons for short pulse durations, leveraging the interaction …

Interactions of Airy beams in nonlinear media with fourth-order diffraction

W Zhao, L Ge, M Shen - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We investigate to the best of our knowledge the first time the interactions of in-phase and out-
of-phase Airy beams in Kerr, saturable and nonlocal nonlinear media with fourth-order …

Infinitely many multipulse solitons of different symmetry types in the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with quartic dispersion

RI Bandara, A Giraldo, NGR Broderick, B Krauskopf - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
We show that the generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation (GNLSE) with quartic
dispersion supports infinitely many multipulse solitons for a wide parameter range of the …

Absence of Galilean invariance for pure-quartic solitons

J Widjaja, E Kobakhidze, TR Cartwright… - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
Optical temporal solitons, arising from self-phase modulation and negative quadratic (β 2)
dispersion, are Galilean invariant, and therefore their properties do not depend on their …