TY - JOUR A1 - Curilla, L. A1 - Astrauskas, I. A1 - Pugzlys, A. A1 - Stajanca, Pavol A1 - Pysz, D. A1 - Uherek, F. A1 - Baltuska, A. A1 - Bugar, I. T1 - Nonlinear performance of asymmetric coupler based on dual-core photonic crystal fiber: Towards sub-nanojoule solitonic ultrafast all-optical switching N2 - We demonstrate ultrafast soliton-based nonlinear balancing of dual-core asymmetry in highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber at sub-nanojoule pulse energy level. The effect of fiber asymmetry was studied experimentally by selective excitation and monitoring of individual fiber cores at different wavelengths between 1500 nm and 1800 nm. Higher energy transfer rate to non-excited core was observed in the case of fast core excitation due to nonlinear asymmetry balancing of temporal solitons, which was confirmed by the dedicated numerical simulations based on the coupled generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equations. Moreover, the simulation results correspond qualitatively with the experimentally acquired dependences of the output dual-core extinction Ratio on excitation energy and wavelength. In the case of 1800 nm fast core excitation, narrow band spectral intensity switching between the output channels was registered with contrast of 23 dB. The switching was achieved by the change of the excitation pulse energy in sub-nanojoule region. The performed detailed analysis of the nonlinear balancing of dual-core asymmetry in solitonic propagation regime opens new perspectives for the development of ultrafast nonlinear all-optical switching devices. KW - Dual-core photonic crystal fiber KW - Soft glass KW - Asymmetric coupler KW - Ultrafast soliton fission KW - All-optical switching KW - Coupled generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation PY - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yofte.2018.02.020 SN - 1068-5200 VL - 42 SP - 39 EP - 49 PB - Springer AN - OPUS4-44324 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Curilla, L. A1 - Astrauskas, I. A1 - Pugzlys, A. A1 - Stajanca, Pavol A1 - Uherek, F. A1 - Pysz, D. A1 - Baltuska, A. A1 - Bugar, I. ED - Kalli, K. ED - Mendez, A. ED - Bunge, C.-A. T1 - Towards ultrafast sub-nanojoule solitonic nonlinear directional coupler based on soft glass dual-core photonics crystal fibers N2 - We demonstrate narrow band spectral intensity switching in dual-core photonic crystal fibers made of highly nonlinear glass under femtosecond excitation. The fibers expressed dual-core asymmetry, thus the slow and fast fiber cores were unambiguously distinguished according to their dispersion profiles. The asymmetry effect on the dual-core Propagation in anomalous dispersion region was studied both experimentally and numerically. The experimental study was carried out using femtosecond laser amplifier system providing tunable pulses in range of 1500 nm - 1800 nm. The obtained results unveiled, that it is possible to improve nonlinearly the coupling between the two waveguides by excitation of the fast fiber core. The results were obtained in regime of high-order soliton propagation and were verified numerically by the coupled generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equations model. The spectral analysis of the radiation transferred to the non-excited core revealed the role of effects such as third order dispersion, soliton compression and spectral dependence of the coupling efficiency. The simulation results provide reasonable agreement with the experimentally observed spectral evolutions in the both fiber cores. Under 1800 nm excitation, narrow band spectral intensity switching was registered with contrast of 23 dB at 10 mm fiber length by changing the excitation pulse energy in sub-nanojoule range. T2 - SPIE Photonics Europe 2018 CY - Strasbourg, France DA - 22.04.2018 KW - Dual-core photonic crystal fiber KW - Soft glass KW - Asymmetric coupler KW - Ultrafast soliton fission KW - All-optical switching KW - Coupled generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation PY - 2018 SN - 978-1-5106-1889-3 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2315256 SN - 0277-786X SN - 1996-756X VL - 10681 SP - 106810I-1 EP - 106810I-6 AN - OPUS4-44906 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -