Emission of dispersive waves from a train of dark solitons in optical fibers

T. Marest , C Mas Arabí (1) , Matteo Conforti (1) , Arnaud Mussot (1) , C. Milián , D. V Skryabin , Alexandre Kudlinski (1)

1 PhLAM - Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules - UMR 8523

We report the experimental observation of multiple dis-persive waves emitted in the anomalous dispersion region of an optical fiber from a train of dark solitons. Each individual dispersive wave can be associated to one particular dark soliton of the train, using phase-matching arguments involving higher-order dispersion and soliton velocity. For a large number of dark solitons (> 10), we observe the formation of a continuum associated with the efficient emission of disper-sive waves.

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]; Formation de Structures et Solitons [nlin.PS]

T. Marest, C Mas Arabí, Matteo Conforti, Arnaud Mussot, C. Milián, et al.. Emission of dispersive waves from a train of dark solitons in optical fibers. Optics Letters, 2016, 41 (11), pp.2454. ⟨10.1364/OL.41.002454⟩. ⟨hal-02387243⟩