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NATURE PHOTONICS
Volume 12, Issue 4, Pages 221-+Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41566-018-0106-7
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- Agence Nationale de la Recherche project LABEX ACTION [ANR11-LABX-0001-01]
- Region of Franche-Comte Project CORPS
- Academy of Finland [267576, 298463]
- Academy of Finland (AKA) [267576, 298463, 298463, 267576] Funding Source: Academy of Finland (AKA)
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Dissipative solitons are remarkably localized states of a physical system that arise from the dynamical balance between nonlinearity, dispersion and environmental energy exchange. They are the most universal form of soliton that can exist, and are seen in far-from-equilibrium systems in many fields, including chemistry, biology and physics. There has been particular interest in studying their properties in mode-locked lasers, but experiments have been limited by the inability to track the dynamical soliton evolution in real time. Here, we use simultaneous dispersive Fourier transform and time-lens measurements to completely characterize the spectral and temporal evolution of ultrashort dissipative solitons as their dynamics pass through a transient unstable regime with complex break-up and collisions before stabilization. Further insight is obtained from reconstruction of the soliton amplitude and phase and calculation of the corresponding complex-valued eigenvalue spectrum. These findings show how real-time measurements provide new insights into ultrafast transient dynamics in optics.
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