Real-time dynamics of soliton collision in a bound-state soliton fiber laser

We experimentally investigated the soliton collisions between soliton molecules and deuterogenic solitons spontaneously generated on the continuous wave (cw) noise background in an ultrafast erbium-doped fiber laser mode locked with MoS2 saturable absorber (SA). The dynamics of the soliton collisions were observed using the time-stretch dispersion Fourier transform technique. The noise-induced deuterogenic solitons first undergo spectral broadening and wavelength shifting, then collide successively with a soliton molecule and eventually vanish. Within the simple collision framework, the spectral-temporal dynamics of soliton collision would help to unveil the self-stabilization mechanism of the soliton molecules in consideration of dispersive wave shedding. This nonlinear dynamics is similar to the soliton rain, except that complex condensed soliton phase is substituted with a soliton molecule.

Controlling soliton collision behaviors in the condensates by the height of barrier potential

We study the linear stability and collision characteristics of the solitons of the Bose–Einstein condensates (BECs) trapped in two barrier potentials. It is shown that the soliton obtained at the top of the barrier potential is stable. Especially, when the two barrier potentials are considered as the output source of the dark solitons, the collision spots and pattern (such as chase, head-on or localization and through collision) of two solitons may be manipulated by the height of the barrier potential.