Analysis of the interplay between soliton fission and modulation instability in supercontinuum generation

A Demircan, U Bandelow - Applied Physics B, 2007 - Springer
We investigate the generation mechanisms for ultra-wide spectra in nonlinear optical fibers.
Soliton fission and modulation instability represent fundamental mechanisms for the …

Observation of the stepwise blue shift of a dispersive wave preceding its trapping by a soliton

A Bendahmane, A Mussot, M Conforti, A Kudlinski - Optics Express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
The trapping of a weak dispersive wave by an intense soliton is a complex process
occurring at the early stage of supercontinuum generation. It is theoretically predicted to …

Rare frustration of optical supercontinuum generation

DR Solli, C Ropers, B Jalali - Applied Physics Letters, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
Recent work has shown that optical rogue waves, large bandwidth fluctuations following
heavy-tailed statistics, can arise during spectral broadening by stochastic enhancement of …

Observation of extreme temporal events in CW-pumped supercontinuum

A Mussot, A Kudlinski, M Kolobov, E Louvergneaux… - Optics express, 2009 - opg.optica.org
We study experimentally and numerically the temporal features of supercontinuum
generated with a continuous-wave ytterbium-doped fiber laser. We show that the temporal …

Spectral wings of the fiber supercontinuum and the dark-bright soliton interaction

C Milián, T Marest, A Kudlinski, DV Skryabin - Optics Express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We present experimental and numerical data on the supercontinuum generation in an
optical fiber pumped in the normal dispersion range where the seeded dark and the …

Supercontinuum generation as a signal amplifier

L Orsila, J Sand, M Närhi, G Genty, G Steinmeyer - Optica, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Supercontinuum white-light generation in optical fibers is a process that is known for its
extreme sensitivity toward fluctuations of the input pulses, giving rise to a strong …

Soliton and rogue wave statistics in supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fibre with two zero dispersion wavelengths

B Kibler, C Finot, JM Dudley - The European Physical Journal Special …, 2009 - Springer
Stochastic numerical simulations are used to study the statistical properties of
supercontinuum spectra generated in photonic crystal fibre with two zero dispersion …

Photonic chip-based resonant supercontinuum

MH Anderson, R Bouchand, J Liu, W Weng… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Supercontinuum generation in optical fibers is one of the most dramatic nonlinear effects
discovered, allowing short pulses to be converted into multi-octave spanning coherent …

Versatile supercontinuum generation in parabolic multimode optical fibers

MA Eftekhar, LG Wright, MS Mills, M Kolesik… - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate that the pump's spatial input profile can provide additional degrees of
freedom in tailoring at will the nonlinear dynamics and the ensuing spectral content of …

Overcoming temporal polarization instabilities from the latent birefringence in all-normal dispersion, wave-breaking-extended nonlinear fiber supercontinuum …

SR Domingue, RA Bartels - Optics Express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
The intrinsic weak birefringence in all-normal dispersion highly nonlinear fiber, particularly
ultra-high-numerical-aperture fiber, generates supercontinuum with long term polarization …