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We present a detailed study of the phase properties of rational breather waves observed in the hydrodynamic and optical domains, namely the Peregrine soliton and related second-order solution. At the point of maximum compression, our experimental results recorded in a wave tank or using an optical fiber platform reveal a characteristic phase shift that is multiple of $pi$ between the central part of the pulse and the continuous background, in agreement with analytical and numerical predictions. We also stress the existence of a large longitudinal phase shift across the point of maximum compression.
Breathers are localized waves, that are periodic in time or space. The concept of breathers is useful for describing many physical systems including granular lattices, Bose-Einstein condensation, hydrodynamics, plasmas and optics. Breathers could exist in both the anomalous and the normal dispersion regime. However, the demonstration of optical breathers in the normal dispersion regime remains elusive to our knowledge. Kerr comb generation in optical microresonators provides an array of oscillators that are highly coupled via the Kerr effect, which can be exploited to explore the breather dynamics. Here, we present, experimentally and numerically, the observation of dark breathers in a normal dispersion silicon nitride microresonator. By controlling the pump wavelength and power, we can generate the dark breather, which exhibits an energy exchange between the central lines and the lines at the wing. The dark breather breathes gently and retains a dark-pulse waveform. A transition to a chaotic breather state is also observed by increasing the pump power. These dark breather dynamics are well reproduced by numerical simulations based on the Lugiato-Lefever equation. The results also reveal the importance of dissipation to dark breather dynamics and give important insights into instabilities related to high power dark pulse Kerr combs from normal dispersion microreosnators.
We report on experimental results where a temporal intensity profile presenting some of the main signatures of the Peregrine soliton (PS) is observed. However, the emergence of a highly peaked structure over a continuous background in a normally dispersive fiber cannot be linked to any PS dynamics and is mainly ascribed to the impact of Brillouin backscattering.
The well-known (1+1D) nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NSE) governs the propagation of narrow-band pulses in optical fibers and others one-dimensional structures. For exploration the evolution of broad-band optical pulses (femtosecond and attosecond) it is necessary to use the more general nonlinear amplitude equation (GNAE) which differs from NSE with two additional non-paraxial terms. That is way, it is important to make clear the difference between the solutions of these two equations. We found a new analytical soliton solution of GNAE and compare it with the well-known NSE one. It is shown that for the fundamental soliton the main difference between the two solutions is in their phases. It appears that, this changes significantly the evolution of optical pulses in multisoliton regime of propagation and admits a behavior different from that of the higher-order NSE solitons.
Magnetic metamaterials composed of split-ring resonators or $U-$type elements may exhibit discreteness effects in THz and optical frequencies due to weak coupling. We consider a model one-dimensional metamaterial formed by a discrete array of nonlinear split-ring resonators with each ring interacting with its nearest neighbours. On-site nonlinearity and weak coupling among the individual array elements result in the appearence of discrete breather excitations or intrinsic localized modes, both in the energy-conserved and the dissipative system. We analyze discrete single and multibreather excitations, as well as a special breather configuration forming a magnetization domain wall and investigate their mobility and the magnetic properties their presence induces in the system.
The propagation of ultrashort pulses in optical fibre displays complex nonlinear dynamics that find important applications in fields such as high power pulse compression and broadband supercontinuum generation. Such nonlinear evolution however, depends sensitively on both the input pulse and fibre characteristics, and optimizing propagation for application purposes requires extensive numerical simulations based on generalizations of a nonlinear Schrodinger-type equation. This is computationally-demanding and creates a severe bottleneck in using numerical techniques to design and optimize experiments in real-time. Here, we present a solution to this problem using a machine-learning based paradigm to predict complex nonlinear propagation in optical fibres with a recurrent neural network, bypassing the need for direct numerical solution of a governing propagation model. Specifically, we show how a recurrent neural network with long short-term memory accurately predicts the temporal and spectral evolution of higher-order soliton compression and supercontinuum generation, solely from a given transform-limited input pulse intensity profile. Comparison with experiments for the case of soliton compression shows remarkable agreement in both temporal and spectral domains. In optics, our results apply readily to the optimization of pulse compression and broadband light sources, and more generally in physics, they open up new perspectives for studies in all nonlinear Schrodinger-type systems in studies of Bose-Einstein condensates, plasma physics, and hydrodynamics.