Title :
Experimental investigation of soliton molecules
Author :
Stratmann, M. ; Mitschke, F.
Author_Institution :
Fachbereich Phys., Rostock Univ., Germany
Abstract :
Experimental investigations of temporal soliton molecules are reported. These molecules were recently discovered numerically; they consist of two bright solitons, glued together by a dark soliton, and exist only in dispersion-managed fiber.
Keywords :
optical fibre dispersion; optical solitons; dispersion-managed fiber; temporal soliton molecule; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Numerical simulation; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber testing; Optical propagation; Optical pulses; Optical solitons; Space vector pulse width modulation; Transmission lines;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2005. QELS '05
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-796-2
DOI :
10.1109/QELS.2005.1548697
