Ballistic dispersive shock waves in optical fibers
Optics
2018-06-28 v1
Abstract
We experimentally and numerically report on the formation of ballistic dispersive shock waves that mimic superfluid behavior in optical fibers. The shock wave is triggered by a strong nonlinear phase shift induced by a high power pump pulse on a cross-polarized continuous-wave probe field, and it exhibits a central void surrounded by two oscillating fronts moving away from each other with opposite velocities. The impact of disorder in the continuous-wave background as well as the difference of group-velocities between the two orthogonally polarized waves is also investigated. Our experimental observations are in very good agreement with theoretical and numerical predictions derived from the Manakov model.
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@article{arxiv.1806.10439,
title = {Ballistic dispersive shock waves in optical fibers},
author = {Javier Nuño and Christophe Finot and Guy Millot and Miro Erkintalo and Julien Fatome},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.10439},
year = {2018}
}