Free-carrier-induced soliton fission unveiled by in situ measurements in nanophotonic waveguides
Abstract
Solitons are localized waves formed by a balance of focusing and defocusing effects. These nonlinear waves exist in diverse forms of matter yet exhibit similar properties including stability, periodic recurrence and particle-like trajectories. One important property is soliton fission, a process by which an energetic higher-order soliton breaks apart due to dispersive or nonlinear perturbations. Here we demonstrate through both experiment and theory that nonlinear photocarrier generation can induce soliton fission. Using near-field measurements, we directly observe the nonlinear spatial and temporal evolution of optical pulses in situ in a nanophotonic semiconductor waveguide. We develop an analytic formalism describing the free-carrier dispersion (FCD) perturbation and show the experiment exceeds the minimum threshold by an order of magnitude. We confirm these observations with a numerical nonlinear Schrodinger equation model. Finally, these results provide a fundamental explanation and physical scaling of optical pulse evolution in free-carrier media and could enable improved supercontinuum sources in gas based and integrated semiconductor waveguides.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Sydney, NSW (Australia); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Center for Nanoscale Materials
- FOM Institute AMOLF, Science Park (Amsterdam); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Center for Nanoscale Materials
- Univ. of Sydney, NSW (Australia)
- Thales Research and Technology, Palaiseau (France)
- FOM Institute AMOLF, Science Park (Amsterdam)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1258598
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nature Communications
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS
Citation Formats
Husko, Chad, Wulf, Matthias, Lefrancois, Simon, Combrié, Sylvain, Lehoucq, Gaëlle, De Rossi, Alfredo, Eggleton, Benjamin J., and Kuipers, L. Free-carrier-induced soliton fission unveiled by in situ measurements in nanophotonic waveguides. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1038/ncomms11332.
Husko, Chad, Wulf, Matthias, Lefrancois, Simon, Combrié, Sylvain, Lehoucq, Gaëlle, De Rossi, Alfredo, Eggleton, Benjamin J., & Kuipers, L. Free-carrier-induced soliton fission unveiled by in situ measurements in nanophotonic waveguides. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11332
Husko, Chad, Wulf, Matthias, Lefrancois, Simon, Combrié, Sylvain, Lehoucq, Gaëlle, De Rossi, Alfredo, Eggleton, Benjamin J., and Kuipers, L. 2016.
"Free-carrier-induced soliton fission unveiled by in situ measurements in nanophotonic waveguides". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11332. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1258598.
@article{osti_1258598,
title = {Free-carrier-induced soliton fission unveiled by in situ measurements in nanophotonic waveguides},
author = {Husko, Chad and Wulf, Matthias and Lefrancois, Simon and Combrié, Sylvain and Lehoucq, Gaëlle and De Rossi, Alfredo and Eggleton, Benjamin J. and Kuipers, L.},
abstractNote = {Solitons are localized waves formed by a balance of focusing and defocusing effects. These nonlinear waves exist in diverse forms of matter yet exhibit similar properties including stability, periodic recurrence and particle-like trajectories. One important property is soliton fission, a process by which an energetic higher-order soliton breaks apart due to dispersive or nonlinear perturbations. Here we demonstrate through both experiment and theory that nonlinear photocarrier generation can induce soliton fission. Using near-field measurements, we directly observe the nonlinear spatial and temporal evolution of optical pulses in situ in a nanophotonic semiconductor waveguide. We develop an analytic formalism describing the free-carrier dispersion (FCD) perturbation and show the experiment exceeds the minimum threshold by an order of magnitude. We confirm these observations with a numerical nonlinear Schrodinger equation model. Finally, these results provide a fundamental explanation and physical scaling of optical pulse evolution in free-carrier media and could enable improved supercontinuum sources in gas based and integrated semiconductor waveguides.},
doi = {10.1038/ncomms11332},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1258598},
journal = {Nature Communications},
issn = {2041-1723},
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volume = 7,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Apr 15 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Fri Apr 15 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
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