Temporal instability of spatial solitons driven by quantum noise

We report the first observation of temporal modulation instability of spatial solitons produced in second harmonic generation. Using quantum theory we interpret the observed instability to result from quantum fluctuations of the vacuum field

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Main Authors: Di Trapani, P., Arrighi, G., Jin Yu, Valiulis, G., Minardi, S., Jenkins, S.D., Kennedy, T.A.B.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Autocorrelation
Bandwidth
Elementary particle vacuum
Fluctuations
Frequency
Noise level
Optical harmonic generation
Optical noise
Quantum mechanics
Solitons
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Summary:We report the first observation of temporal modulation instability of spatial solitons produced in second harmonic generation. Using quantum theory we interpret the observed instability to result from quantum fluctuations of the vacuum field