Fragility of a soliton’s shot-to-shot coherence
Abstract
We show that a soliton in a high-order spatial mode of a multi-mode fiber can completely lose its shot-to-shot coherence due to a noise seed with energy orders of magnitude below that of the soliton. The total degradation of shot-to-shot coherence is caused by a very strong recently demonstrated intermodal nonlinear effect, soliton self-mode conversion. The results indicate that the robustness of solitons against perturbations is not entirely applicable in the presence of intermodal nonlinearities, and, more generally, that certain single-mode results cannot be trivially extrapolated to multi-mode fibers.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Sep 21, 2020
- Source ID
- 10.1364/ol.400250
Entities
People
- Aku Antikainen
- Havva Begüm Kabagöz
- S. Ramachandran
Organizations
- National Science Foundation
- Office of Naval Research