Spatial Akhmediev breathers and modulation instability growth-decay cycles in a quadratic optical medium
- We investigate the spatial nonlinear localization of light on a quasi-plane-wave background with a harmonic perturbation induced by modulation instability in a quadratic nonlinear optical medium. In particular, we demonstrate experimentally the excitation of deterministic Akhmediev breathers and thus the growth-decay dynamics of modulation instability in a LiNbO3 slab waveguide. The results should stimulate new interest in modulation instability, extreme events, turbulence, recurrence, and supercontinuum generation in quadratic nonlinear optics.
Author: | Roland SchiekORCiD, Fabio Baronio |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.1.032036 |
Parent Title (English): | Physical Review Research |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2019 |
Release Date: | 2022/01/19 |
Volume: | 1 |
Issue: | 3 |
Article Number: | 032036(R) |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 5 |
Institutes: | Fakultät Elektro- und Informationstechnik |
Begutachtungsstatus: | peer-reviewed |
OpenAccess Publikationsweg: | Gold Open Access- Erstveröffentlichung in einem/als Open-Access-Medium |
research focus: | Information und Kommunikation |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |