The Peregrine soliton in nonlinear fibre optics
The Peregrine soliton in nonlinear fibre optics
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DOI:
10.1038/nphys1740
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发表时间:
2010-10-01
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19.6
通讯作者:
Dudley, J. M.
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作者:
Kibler, B.;Fatome, J.;Dudley, J. M.
The Peregrine soliton is a localized nonlinear structure predicted to exist over 25 years ago, but not so far experimentally observed in any physical system(1). It is of fundamental significance because it is localized in both time and space, and because it defines the limit of a wide class of solutions to the nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLSE). Here, we use an analytic description of NLSE breather propagation(2) to implement experiments in optical fibre generating femtosecond pulses with strong temporal and spatial localization, and near-ideal temporal Peregrine soliton characteristics. In showing that Peregrine soliton characteristics appear with initial conditions that do not correspond to the mathematical ideal, our results may impact widely on studies of hydrodynamic wave instabilities where the Peregrine soliton is considered a freak-wave prototype(3-7).