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First Experimental Observation of Polarization Locked Temporal Vector Solitons

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Ultrafast Phenomena XI

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Abstract

We experimentally observe polarization locked temporal vector solitons, i.e. solitons that preserve their polarization despite a birefringent environment, in a passively mode-locked fiber laser. The two intracavity orthogonal polarization modes of a 420 fs soliton pulse phase lock when the differential nonlinear phase shift arising from their unequal intensities compensates for the linear cavity birefringence. The stabilization mechanism involving the nonlinear coherent energy coupling between components is described.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA

    B. C. Collings & K. Bergman

  2. JILA, University of Colorado and NIST, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA

    S. T. Cundiff

  3. Australian Photonics Cooperative Research Centre, Optical Sciences Centre, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia

    N. N. Akhmediev

  4. Insituto de Optica, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Serrano 121, 28006, Madrid, Spain

    J. M. Soto-Crespo

  5. Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, NJ, 07733, USA

    B. C. Collings & W. H. Knox

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Collings, B.C., Cundiff, S.T., Akhmediev, N.N., Soto-Crespo, J.M., Bergman, K., Knox, W.H. (1998). First Experimental Observation of Polarization Locked Temporal Vector Solitons. In: Ultrafast Phenomena XI. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 63. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72289-9_10

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