The propagation of decelerating Airy pulses in non-instantaneous cubic medium is investigated both theoretically and numerically. In a Debye model, at variance with the case of accelerating Airy and Gaussian pulses, a decelerating Airy pulse evolves into a single soliton for weak and general non-instantaneous response. Airy pulses can hence be used to control soliton generation by temporal shaping. The effect is critically dependent on the response time, and could be used as a way to measure the Debye type response function. For highly non-instantaneous response, we theoretically find a decelerating Airy pulse is still transformed into Airy wave packet with deceleration. The theoretical predictions are confirmed by numerical simulations.
%0 Journal Article
%1 Zhang:17
%A Zhang, Lifu
%A Huang, Pengwei
%A Conti, Claudio
%A Wang, Zhiteng
%A Hu, Yonghua
%A Lei, Dajun
%A Li, Ying
%A Fan, Dianyuan
%D 2017
%I OSA
%J Opt. Express
%K myown
%N 3
%P 1856--1866
%R 10.1364/OE.25.001856
%T Decelerating Airy pulse propagation in highly non-instantaneous cubic media
%U http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-25-3-1856
%V 25
%X The propagation of decelerating Airy pulses in non-instantaneous cubic medium is investigated both theoretically and numerically. In a Debye model, at variance with the case of accelerating Airy and Gaussian pulses, a decelerating Airy pulse evolves into a single soliton for weak and general non-instantaneous response. Airy pulses can hence be used to control soliton generation by temporal shaping. The effect is critically dependent on the response time, and could be used as a way to measure the Debye type response function. For highly non-instantaneous response, we theoretically find a decelerating Airy pulse is still transformed into Airy wave packet with deceleration. The theoretical predictions are confirmed by numerical simulations.
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abstract = {The propagation of decelerating Airy pulses in non-instantaneous cubic medium is investigated both theoretically and numerically. In a Debye model, at variance with the case of accelerating Airy and Gaussian pulses, a decelerating Airy pulse evolves into a single soliton for weak and general non-instantaneous response. Airy pulses can hence be used to control soliton generation by temporal shaping. The effect is critically dependent on the response time, and could be used as a way to measure the Debye type response function. For highly non-instantaneous response, we theoretically find a decelerating Airy pulse is still transformed into Airy wave packet with deceleration. The theoretical predictions are confirmed by numerical simulations.},
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author = {Zhang, Lifu and Huang, Pengwei and Conti, Claudio and Wang, Zhiteng and Hu, Yonghua and Lei, Dajun and Li, Ying and Fan, Dianyuan},
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title = {Decelerating Airy pulse propagation in highly non-instantaneous cubic media},
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