Open AccessConverting noise into solitons: optical self-organization through intermodal nonlinearity
Author(s) -
Havva Begüm Kabagöz,
Aku Antikainen,
Siddharth Ramachandran
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.424256
Subject(s) - soliton , optics , raman scattering , multi mode optical fiber , noise (video) , physics , nonlinear optics , mode (computer interface) , pulse (music) , nonlinear system , quantum noise , optical fiber , raman spectroscopy , laser , quantum mechanics , quantum , computer science , artificial intelligence , detector , image (mathematics) , operating system
We experimentally demonstrate a pump-pulse-induced conversion of noise into solitons in multimode optical fibers. The process is based on the recently discovered phenomenon of soliton self-mode conversion, where a pump soliton in a higher-order spatial mode crafts another well-defined soliton, originating purely from noise, in a lower-order mode at a longer wavelength through intermodal Raman scattering. The lack of the need for any seed or cavity feedback demonstrates that soliton self-mode conversion is a fundamentally unavoidable, but nevertheless tailorable and hence useful, self-organizing nonlinear optical effect capable of turning noise into transform limited solitons.