Génération expérimentale de solitons de cut-off dans une ligne électrique non linéaire

National audience; Nous étudions le phénomène de supratransmission dans un milieu non linéaire discret, soumis, à une excitation périodique dont la fréquence appartient à la bande interdite. Nous montrons l’existence d’un seuil de tension au dessus duquel l’instabilité modulationnelle (IM) va se développer dans la ligne, valeur de seuil dépendant de la fréquence d’excitation. Si elle n’empêche pas l’apparition de l’IM par supratransmission, la dissipation présente dans la ligne est un obstacle à la génération des solitons de cut-off, obstacle que nous sommes parvenus à contourner par un choix approprié de l’amplitude de l’excitation.

Discreteness effects on the double sine-Gordon kink.

Suppression of the frequency drifts in polarization modulational instability spectra by means of a photon reservoir

By appropriately combining the effects of second- and fourth-order dispersion, and by carefully choosing the pump power, we create a photon reservoir which suppresses the drifts of sidebands in the spectra of polarization modulational instability

Breather compactons in nonlinear Klein-Gordon systems

We demonstrate the existence of a localized breathing mode with a compact support, i.e., a stationary breather compacton, in a nonlinear Klein-Gordon system. This breather compacton results from a delicate balance between the harmonicity of the substrate potential and the total nonlinearity induced by the substrate potential and the coupling forces between adjacent lattice sites.

On the designing of densely dispersion-managed optical fiber systems for ultrafast optical communication

We present some theoretical and experimental results which suggest the possibility of constructing a non-empirical methodology of designing optical transmission systems with ultra high bit-rate per channel. Theoretically, we present an average dispersion decreasing densely dispersion-managed (A4dm) fiber system, which exhibits many advantages over the densely dispersion-managed fiber system, such as the possibility of transmitting chirp-free Gaussian pulses at 160 Gbit/s per channel over transoceanic distances, with a reduced energy and minimal intra-channel interaction. Experimentally we present generation of a 160-GHz picosecond pulse train at 1550 nm using multiple four-wave mixing tempo…

Impact of the material absorption on the modulational instability spectra of wave propagation in high index glass fibers.

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Suppression of the frequency drift of modulational instability side bands by means of a fiber system associated with a photon reservoir.

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Raman-assisted parametric frequency conversion in a normally dispersive single-mode fiber

International audience; We demonstrate efficient frequency conversion with large frequency shifts of an anti-Stokes signal into a parametrically seeded Stokes idler, which is generated by a highly mismatched three-wave mixing interaction and subsequent Raman amplification in a normally dispersive single-mode fiber. The use of non-phase-matched waves in Raman-assisted three-wave mixing interactions overcomes the strict spectral limitations imposed by phase-matching conditions in parametric frequency-conversion processes.

Collective coordinate approach for the dynamics of light pulses in fiber ring lasers

We present an efficient variational approach for fiber lasers in which light pulses may execute complex dynamics, and we establish its validity by comparison with the numerical approach based on the generalized nonlinear Schroedinger equation.

Modulational instability processes in optical isotropic fibers under dual- frequency circular polarization pumping

Experiments are presented showing that, under dual-frequency, circular polarization pumping, host modulational instability processes can be generated in a single-mode isotropic fiber by careful tuning of the frequency spacing between the pumps.

Efficient control of the energy exchange due to the Manakov vector-soliton collision

By examining the concept of energy exchange among the orthogonally polarized components of each of two colliding (Manakov-like) vector solitons it is observed that a maximum or an efficient energy-exchange process is possible only for an appropriate choice of the initial physical parameters (namely, frequency separation, polarizations, time delay, and pulse-width separation between the colliding solitons) for which L(W) (walk-off length) >>L(NL) (nonlinear length). However, in this case only, the amount of energy-exchange can be considerably increased or decreased by appropriately changing the phases of colliding solitons without altering the walk-off length and the initial energy distribut…