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

Light, Science & Applications
Heng ZhouChee Wei Wong

Abstract

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 horizons, 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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