Universality of the Peregrine Soliton in the Focusing Dynamics of the Cubic Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation
Alexey Tikan, Cyril Billet, Gennady El, Alexander Tovbis, Marco Bertola, Thibaut Sylvestre, Francois Gustave, Stephane Randoux, Goëry Genty, Pierre Suret, and John M. Dudley
Index: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.033901
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Abstract
We report experimental confirmation of the universal emergence of the Peregrine soliton predicted to occur during pulse propagation in the semiclassical limit of the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Using an optical fiber based system, measurements of temporal focusing of high power pulses reveal both intensity and phase signatures of the Peregrine soliton during the initial nonlinear evolution stage. Experimental and numerical results are in very good agreement, and show that the universal mechanism that yields the Peregrine soliton structure is highly robust and can be observed over a broad range of parameters.