Supercontinuum and rogue soliton generation by induced modulational instability in photonic crystal fibre

Abstract

We present an approach that enables active control of supercontinuum (SC) and rogue soliton (RS) generation through the modulation of a 500 fs input pulse by numerical simulations. The induced modulational instability contributes to the initial comb-like SC generation, which is fundamentally different from SC initiated by high-order soliton fission. The output spectrum shows great dependence on modulation frequencies and depths. It is interesting that we can manipulate the RS generation by adjusting the modulation parameters. And we also demonstrate the conditions which can be beneficial to RS generation: (i) very weak or large values of modulation depth; (ii) seeding in the vicinity of the peak of the modulational instability gain spectrum. Although RS degrades the smoothness of the SC, it is of great significance in the generation of tailored SC.

Keywords:

• Supercontinuum
• rogue soliton
• photonic crystal fibre
• induced modulational instability