Three-wave trapponic solitons for tunable high-repetition rate pulse train generation

Year: 2008

Authors: Baronio F., Conforti M., Degasperis A., Wabnitz S.

Autors Affiliation: Dipartimento di Elettronica per l\’Automazione, Università di Brescia, Brescia 25123, Italy; Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, 00185 Roma, Italy; Institut Carnot de Bourgogne, UMR 5209 CNRS, Université de Bourgogne, 21078 Dijon, France

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.

Journal/Review: IEEE JOURNAL OF QUANTUM ELECTRONICS

Volume: 44 (6)      Pages from: 542  to: 546

More Information: The work of A. Degasperis and S. Wabnitz was supported in part by the French CNRS project GDR 3073. F. Baronio and M. Conforti are with the Dipartimento di Elettronica per l’Automazione, Università di Brescia, Brescia 25123, Italy (e-mail: fabio.ba-ronio@ing.unibs.it). A. Degasperis is with the Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma La Sapienza, and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, 00185 Roma, Italy. S. Wabnitz was with the Institut Carnot de Bourgogne, UMR 5209 CNRS, Université de Bourgogne, 21078 Dijon, France. He is now with Dipartimento di Elettronica per l’Automazione, Università di Brescia, Brescia 25123, Italy. Color versions of one or more of the figures in this paper are available online at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.
KeyWords: CW signals; Dispersive mediums; High-repetition rates; Intensity levels; Pulse trains; Pulse-train generation; Quasi continuous waves; Repetition rates; Three-wave interaction (TWI); Ultra-short pulse; Variable-speed, Locomotives; Q switched lasers; Railroad cars; Retaining walls; Solitons, Pulse generators
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2008.917970

Citations: 17
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