Enhancing optical nonlinear effects with spectrally periodic solitons

Joshua P. Lourdesamy

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Oral Session

CLEO-PR2022 » Ultrashort Pulse Generation and Nonlinear Propagation I

[CWP2E] Ultrashort Pulse Generation and Nonlinear Propagation I

Wed. Aug 3, 2022 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Mid-sized Hall A (1F)

Session Chairs: Nobuhisa Ishii (QST), Jiro Itatani (Univ. of Tokyo)

2:45 PM - 3:00 PM

[CWP2E-06] Enhancing optical nonlinear effects with spectrally periodic solitons

Joshua P. Lourdesamy¹, *Antoine F. J. Runge¹, Tristram J. Alexander¹, Darren D. Hudson², Andrea Blanco-Redondo³, C. Martijn de Sterke¹ (1. University of Sydney (Australia), 2. CACI Photonics (United States of America), 3. Nokia Bell labs (United States of America))

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We report the generation of high-intensity pulses consisting of equally spaced spectral components through linear dispersion engineering. Their interference leads to an enhanced effective nonlinearity that monotonically increases with the number of frequency components.