Minisymposium for Young Researchers - Abstract

Qiang, Long

Higher order dispersion solitons: Families of exact solutions

Solitons are pulses that balance nonlinear effects with the effect of dispersion. In the lowest order approximation, the (inverse) group velocity depends linearly on frequency. This quadratic dispersion often dominates higher orders of dispersion, which correspond to more complicated relations between group velocity and frequency. Recent studies have shown that solitons dominated by higher order dispersion effects give rise to a large family of possible soliton solutions. We study soliton solutions in formed in higher order dispersion systems, for example in our fibre laser that includes a spectral pulse shaper, and present families of exact analytic solutions.