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Shock wave generation triggered by a weak background in optical fibers

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Abstract

We experimentally report the observation of dispersive shock waves from a short pulse superimposed onto a small continuous wave background in optical fibers. We show that the background allows us to strongly enhance the extension and contrast of the oscillatory wave train inherent to the dispersive shock. More than seven periods of oscillations with high contrast are observed experimentally and confirmed with numerical simulations. The dynamics of the process are simply explained from spectro-temporal representations.

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Visualization 1: MP4 (308 KB)      initial condition sech pulse
Visualization 2: MP4 (361 KB)      initial condition gaussian pulse with background
Visualization 3: MP4 (224 KB)      initial condition gaussian pulse without background

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