Three-Wave Trapponic Solitons for Tunable High-Repetition Rate Pulse Train Generation

Author

Baronio, Fabio ; Conforti, Matteo ; Degasperis, Antonio ; Wabnitz, Stefan

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Elettron. per l´´Autom., Univ. di Brescia, Brescia

Volume

44

Issue

6

fYear

2008

fDate

6/1/2008 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

542

Lastpage

546

Abstract

We demonstrate that the parametric mixing of an ultrashort Zakharov-Manakov (ZM) soliton pulse with a quasi-continuous-wave (CW) signal in a weakly quadratic nonlinear and dispersive medium may lead to the generation of a three-wave soliton with variable speed, or trappon. We show that trappons may provide a novel mechanism of cavityless ultrashort pulse train generation. The timewidth, the amplitude and the repetition rate of the generated pulse trains may be controlled in a stable manner by adjusting the intensity level of the CW signal and/or the ZM short soliton pulse.

Keywords

multiwave mixing; optical pulse generation; optical solitons; dispersive medium; parametric mixing; pulse train generation; quadratic nonlinear medium; quasi-continuous-wave signal; three-wave trapponic solitons; ultrashort Zakharov-Manakov soliton pulse; Communication system control; Dispersion; Optical control; Optical microscopy; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse generation; Pulse modulation; Signal generators; Solitons; Pulse-train generation; solitons; three-wave interaction (TWI);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JQE.2008.917970

Filename

4479649