Real-time dynamics and cross-correlation gating spectroscopy of free-carrier drude slow-light solitons

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Optical solitons—stable waves balancing delicately between nonlinearities and dispersive effects—have advanced the field of ultrafast optics and dynamics, with contributions spanning from supercontinuum generation to soliton fission, optical event hor-izons, Hawking radiation and optical rogue waves, among others. Here, we investigate picojoule soliton dynamics in silicon slow-light, photonic-bandgap waveguides under the influence of Drude-modeled, free-carrier-induced nonlinear effects. Using real-time and single-shot amplified dispersive Fourier transform spectroscopy simultaneously with high-fidelity cross-correlation frequency resolved optical gating at femtojoule sensitivity and femtosecond resolution, we examine the soliton stability limits, the soliton dynamics including free-carrier quartic slow-light scaling and acceleration, and the Drude electron–hole plasma-induced perturbations in the Cherenkov radiation and modulation instability. Our real-time single-shot and time-averaged cross-correlation measurements are matched with our detailed theoretical modeling, examining the reduced group velocity free-carrier kinetics on solitons at the picojoule scale.

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Zhou, H., Huang, S. W., Li, X., McMillan, J. F., Zhang, C., Wong, K. K. Y., … Wong, C. W. (2017). Real-time dynamics and cross-correlation gating spectroscopy of free-carrier drude slow-light solitons. Light: Science and Applications, 6(6). https://doi.org/10.1038/lsa.2017.8

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