Pure-quartic solitons

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 7; no. 1; p. 10427
• Main Authors: Blanco-Redondo, Andrea, de Sterke, C. Martijn, Sipe, J.E., Krauss, Thomas F., Eggleton, Benjamin J., Husko, Chad
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 29.01.2016; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 142/126; 639/624/1020/1095; 639/766/400/1118; Humanities and Social Sciences; multidisciplinary; Science; Science (multidisciplinary)

Temporal optical solitons have been the subject of intense research due to their intriguing physics and applications in ultrafast optics and supercontinuum generation. Conventional bright optical solitons result from the interaction of anomalous group-velocity dispersion and self-phase modulation. H...