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Experimental investigation of the extraction of solitons at the initial stage of the soliton formation process
Autor
MIGUEL ANGEL BELLO JIMENEZ
EVGENY KUZIN
BALDEMAR IBARRA ESCAMILLA
ARIEL FLORES ROSAS
Institución
Resumen
We demonstrate the extraction of a single soliton from a bunch of solitons generated by the pulse breakup effect. The bunch of solitons was generated in a 500-m fiber pumped by 25-ps pulses. For the extraction of single soliton from the bunch we use a nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM). At its output we detected a pulse with full width at half-maximum (FWHM) of 0.99 ps whose autocorrelation trace corresponds to that of a soliton. Our results demonstrate that the suggested method can be useful for soliton generation, and also for investigations of the initial stage of the soliton formation process.