Real-time dynamics and cross-correlation gating spectroscopy of free-carrier Drude slow-light solitons

Heng Zhou; Shu-Wei Huang; Xiujian Li; James F McMillan; Chi Zhang; Kenneth Kin-Yip Wong; Mingbin Yu; Guo-Qiang Lo; Dim-Lee Kwong; Kun Qiu; Chee Wei Wong

doi:10.1038/lsa.2017.8

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Real-time dynamics and cross-correlation gating spectroscopy of free-carrier Drude slow-light solitons

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- Real-time dynamics and cross-correlation gating spectroscopy of free-carrier Drude slow-light solitons
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 6, Issue 3, (2017)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Key Lab of Optical Fiber Sensing and Communication Networks, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
  2.Optical Nanostructures Laboratory, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
  3.Mesoscopic Optics and Quantum Electronics Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
  4.College of Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan 410073, China
  5.Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  6.Institute of Microelectronics, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Science Park Ⅱ, Singapore 117685, Singapore
- Author bio：
  
  H Zhou, Email: zhouheng@uestc.edu.cn
  S-W Huang, Email: swhuang@seas.ucla.edu
  CW Wong, Email: cheewei.wong@ucla.edu
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2017.8
  CLC：
- Published：2017-09，
  
  Published Online：10 February 2017，
  
  Received：03 January 2017，
  
  Revised：08 February 2017，
  
  Accepted：08 February 2017
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Zhou, H. et al. Real-time dynamics and cross-correlation gating spectroscopy of free-carrier Drude slow-light solitons. Light: Science & Applications, 6, e17008 (2017).
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Zhou, H. et al. Real-time dynamics and cross-correlation gating spectroscopy of free-carrier Drude slow-light solitons. Light: Science & Applications, 6, e17008 (2017). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2017.8.

摘要

Abstract

Optical solitons—stable waves balancing delicately between nonlinearities and dispersive effects—have advanced the field of ultrafast optics and dynamics

with contributions spanning from supercontinuum generation to soliton fission

optical event horizons

Hawking radiation and optical rogue waves

among others. Here

we investigate picojoule soliton dynamics in silicon slow-light

photonic-bandgap waveguides under the influence of Drude-modeled

free-carrier-induced nonlinear effects. Using real-time and single-shot amplified dispersive Fourier transform spectroscopy simultaneously with high-fidelity cross-correlation frequency resolved optical gating at femtojoule sensitivity and femtosecond resolution

we examine the soliton stability limits

the soliton dynamics including free-carrier quartic slow-light scaling and acceleration

and the Drude electron–hole plasma-induced perturbations in the Cherenkov radiation and modulation instability. Our real-time single-shot and time-averaged cross-correlation measurements are matched with our detailed theoretical modeling

examining the reduced group velocity free-carrier kinetics on solitons at the picojoule scale.

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nonlinear kineticsoptical solitonsphotonic bandgap materials

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