Pure-high-even-order dispersion bound solitons complexes in ultra-fast fiber lasers

Ying Han; Bo Gao; Honglin Wen; Chunyang Ma; Jiayu Huo; Yingying Li; Luyao Zhou; Qi Li; Ge Wu; Lie Liu

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Pure-high-even-order dispersion bound solitons complexes in ultra-fast fiber lasers

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- Pure-high-even-order dispersion bound solitons complexes in ultra-fast fiber lasers
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 13, Issue 5, Pages: 957-972(2024)
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- Received：04 December 2023，
  
  Revised：2024-04-06，
  
  Accepted：09 April 2024，
  
  Published Online：06 May 2024，
  
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Ying Han, Bo Gao, Honglin Wen, et al. Pure-high-even-order dispersion bound solitons complexes in ultra-fast fiber lasers[J]. Light: Science & Applications, 2024, 13(5): 957-972.
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Ying Han, Bo Gao, Honglin Wen, et al. Pure-high-even-order dispersion bound solitons complexes in ultra-fast fiber lasers[J]. Light: Science & Applications, 2024, 13(5): 957-972. DOI： 10.1038/s41377-024-01451-z.

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Temporal solitons have been the focus of much research due to their fascinating physical properties. These solitons can form bound states

which are fundamentally crucial modes in fiber laser and present striking analogies with their matter molecules counterparts

which means they have potential applications in large-capacity transmission and all-optical information storage. Although traditionally

second-order dispersion has been the dominant dispersion for conventional solitons

recent experimental and theoretical research has shown that pure-high-even-order dispersion (PHEOD) solitons with energy-width scaling can arise from the interaction of arbitrary negative-even-order dispersion and Kerr nonlinearity. Despite these advancements

research on the bound states of PHEOD solitons is currently non-existent. In this study

we obtained PHEOD bound solitons in a fiber laser using an intra-cavity spectral pulse shaper for high-order dispersion management. Specifically

we experimentally demonstrate the existence of PHEOD solitons and PHEOD bound solitons with pure-quartic

-sextic

-octic

and -decic dispersion. Numerical simulations corroborate these experimental observations. Furthermore

vibrating phase PHEOD bound soliton pairs

sliding phase PHEOD bound soliton pairs

and hybrid phase PHEOD bound tri-soliton are discovered and characterized. These results broaden the fundamental understanding of solitons and show the universality of multi-soliton patterns.

The pure-high-even-order dispersion bound solitons complexes

which build up in high-order dispersion management ultra-fast fiber laser

are revealed both theoretically and experimentally

enriching the framework towards multi-soliton complexes.

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