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  • 2013 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics - International Quantum Electronics Conference
  • (Optica Publishing Group, 2013),
  • paper CFIE_P_14

Modulation instability in the sub-cycle regime

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Abstract

Modulation instability (MI) in Xe-filled kagomé-style hollow core photonic crystal fibre (PCF) has recently been demonstrated experimentally using 500 fs laser pulses centred at λ = 800 nm with energies of a few µJ [1]. It is known that MI leads to the formation of fundamental solitons [2] with average amplitude and temporal width given by [3]: τ0=2T0/(πN) where τ0 is the duration of the input pulse, N=γP0T0/|β2| the soliton order, γ the nonlinear coefficient, P0 the pump peak power and β2 the group velocity dispersion. This means that τ0 depends on N. The average temporal width of the solitons emerging from the instability can be arbitrarily set by suitable choice of gas pressure and pump pulse energy and duration. This theory is however only strictly valid within the approximations of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation; for few-cycle pulses a more complete model based on the full field equation must be used [4]. Using a statistical approach we explore numerically the differences between multi-cycle MI with a predicted soliton duration τ0 > C/λ~2.7 fs, and sub-cycle MI τ0 < C/λ~2.7 fs. After running many simulations (~1000) for both cases we retrieve, at a given fibre position, the temporal location, duration and peak power of certain discrete peaks in the intensity envelope. For a predicted average soliton duration of 7 fs (multi-cycle regime) the simple analysis above works as expected (Fig. 1); N = 1 solitons are predominantly generated (dashed curve), the peak in the distribution of pulse durations being at 7 fs. Even after propagation over 3 dispersion lengths the distribution is maintained, as expected for solitons. The small deviations are likely to be due to higher order effects in these extremely short and broadband pulses.

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