Soliton Molecules with Two Frequencies

authored by

Oliver Melchert, Stephanie Willms, Surajit Bose, Alexey Yulin, Bernhard Roth, Fedor Mitschke, Uwe Morgner, Ihar Babushkin, Ayhan Demircan

Abstract

We demonstrate a peculiar mechanism for the formation of bound states of light pulses of substantially different optical frequencies, in which pulses are strongly bound across a vast frequency gap. This is enabled by a propagation constant with two separate regions of anomalous dispersion. The resulting soliton compound exhibits moleculelike binding energy, vibration, and radiation and can be understood as a mutual trapping providing a striking analogy to quantum mechanics. The phenomenon constitutes an intriguing case of two light waves mutually affecting and controlling each other.

Organisation(s)

PhoenixD: Photonics, Optics, and Engineering - Innovation Across Disciplines
Hannover Centre for Optical Technologies (HOT)
Institute of Quantum Optics

External Organisation(s)

St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO)
University of Rostock
University of Iceland

Type

Article

Journal

Physical Review Letters

Volume

123

ISSN

0031-9007

Publication date

13.12.2019

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Physics and Astronomy(all)

Electronic version(s)

https://zenodo.org/record/3697876#.Y2TOHoQxmUk (Access: Open)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.243905 (Access: Closed)