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2017-07-03 09:26 - PHz-Wide Spectral Interference Through Coherent Plasma-Induced Fission of Higher-Order Solitons
F. Köttig, F. Tani, J.C. Travers, and P.St.J. Russell, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 263902 (2017)
We identify a novel regime of soliton-plasma interactions in which high-intensity ultrashort pulses of intermediate soliton order undergo coherent plasma-induced fission. Experimental results obtained in gas-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fiber are supported by rigorous numerical simulations. In the anomalous dispersion regime, the cumulative blueshift of higher-order input solitons with ionizing intensities results in pulse splitting before the ultimate self-compression point, leading to the generation of robust pulse pairs with PHz bandwidths. The novel dynamics closes the gap between plasma-induced adiabatic soliton compression and modulational instability.
