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Kuznetsov-Ma Soliton Dynamics in Nonlinear Fiber Optics

Frédéric DiasGuy MillotJohn M. DudleyBertrand KiblerBenjamin WetzelJulien FatomeGoëry GentyNail AkhmedievChristophe Finot

subject

PhysicsOptical fiberComputer simulationBreatherNonlinear opticslaw.inventionNonlinear systemsymbols.namesakeNonlinear Sciences::Exactly Solvable and Integrable SystemslawQuantum mechanicssymbolsPeregrine solitonSolitonNonlinear Sciences::Pattern Formation and SolitonsNonlinear Schrödinger equation

description

The Kuznetzov-Ma (KM) soliton is a solution of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation derived in 1977 but never observed experimentally. Here we report experiments showing KM soliton dynamics in nonlinear breather evolution in optical fiber.

https://doi.org/10.1364/np.2012.nw3d.5