| Issue |
Photoniques
Number 122, 2023
Non-linear Optics
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| Page(s) | 41 - 45 | |
| Section | Pioneering experiment | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/photon/202312241 | |
| Published online | 29 November 2023 | |
Pioneering experiments on optical solitons in fibres
1
Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, UMR 6303 CNRS-Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
2
Université de Franche-Comté, Institut FEMTO-ST, CNRS UMR 6174, Besançon, France
* e-mail : christophe.finot@u-bourgogne.fr
Fifty years ago, the concept of solitons in optical fibres was proposed numerically by F. Tappert and A. Hasegawa from Bell Labs. Seven years later in 1980, experiments confirmed that dispersion and the Kerr nonlinearity could combine to yield a coherent ultrashort pulse able to propagate without distortion. The implications of this discovery go well beyond the sector of telecommunications as initially suggested, and solitons now play a major role in modern ultrafast nonlinear photonics.
© The authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2023
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