Soliton Blockade for Nonlinear Accelerating Pulses

TL;DR

This paper investigates the nonlinear propagation of truncated Airyprime pulses in optical fibers, revealing new self-accelerating behaviors and spectral shifts, and proposes methods for efficient wavelength conversion and potential spatiotemporal light bullets.

Contribution

It provides a detailed analysis of nonlinear self-accelerating Airyprime pulses, highlighting the impact of truncation and offering new techniques for pulse generation and wavelength conversion.

Findings

Observation of red-shifted and blue-shifted spectral features depending on dispersion type

Sensitivity of self-accelerating pulses to the truncation coefficient

Potential for generating spatiotemporal light bullets in Kerr media

Abstract

We study the nonlinear propagation of truncated Airyprime pulses in optical fibers with both anomalous or normal dispersion. Weobservenonlinear self-accelerating pulses with notable red-shifted spectral notch (double peaks) or blue-shifted spectral peak depending on whether the dispersion is anomalous or normal. SuchprocessisinsharpcontrasttothatofAirypulses.The formation of nonlinear self-accelerating pulses is very sensitive to the truncated coefficient. The relationship between the characteristics of such accelerated pulses and the truncated coefficient are disclosed and compared in detail. Our results not only shed new light on the nonlinear propagation of Airyprime pulses, but also provide a novel method to generate nonlinear self-accelerating pulses as well as enable the realization of very efficient wavelength conversion based on the controlled frequency shift. Based on space-time duality, self-accelerating spatiotemporal nonlinear light bullets can be envisaged from the propagation of spatiotemporal Airyprime wave packets in pure Kerr medium.