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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 39: Ultrashort Laser Pulses
Q 39.4: Talk
Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 15:00–15:15, S SR 211 Maschb.
All-Optical Switching and Spectroscopy of Soliton Molecules — •Felix Kurtz1, Claus Ropers1, and Georg Herink2 — 1IV. Physical Insitute, University of Göttingen, Germany — 2Experimental Physics VIII, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Bound-states of femtosecond solitons are experimentally generated and controlled in a kerr-lens mode-locked oscillator. Based on single-shot time-stretch interferometry [1], we resolve the resonance of vibrating soliton molecules [2] and demonstrate highly deterministic all-optical switching between stable doublet states of different temporal binding separation [3]. We discuss distinct interaction regimes and present a theoretical model for the underlying nonlinear dynamics.
[1] G. Herink, F. Kurtz, B. Jalali, D.R. Solli, C. Ropers, "Real-time spectral interferometry probes the internal dynamics of femtosecond soliton molecules.", Science 356, 50-54 (2017).
[2] F.M. Mitschke, L.F. Mollenauer, "Experimental observation of interaction forces between solitons in optical fibers", Opt. Lett. 12, 355 (1987).
[3] F. Kurtz, C. Ropers, G. Herink, "Nonlinear Spectroscopy and All-Optical Switching of Femtosecond Soliton Molecules", under revision (2018).