Dynamics of Periodic Pulse Collisions in a Strongly Dissipative-Dispersive System
Abstract
We report on the dynamics of the periodic collision process occurring between different pulse bound states in a stretched-pulse erbium-doped fiber laser. The acquisition of a large number of second-order correlation traces allows us to reconstruct the dynamics of a single collision event. The measurements clearly demonstrate that, unlike true solitons in the case of integrable systems, the pulses do not fully overlap in the course of a collision. Instead, the collision proceeds through the exchange of bonds between the individual pulses constituting the bound states.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- May 2005
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.203903
- Bibcode:
- 2005PhRvL..94t3903R
- Keywords:
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- 42.65.Tg;
- 42.55.Wd;
- 42.60.Fc;
- 42.65.Re;
- Optical solitons;
- nonlinear guided waves;
- Fiber lasers;
- Modulation tuning and mode locking;
- Ultrafast processes;
- optical pulse generation and pulse compression