Bound Soliton Fiber Laser Mode-Locking Without Saturable Absorption Effect
Stable bound soliton laser mode-locking is experimentally demonstrated in an environmentally stable hybrid mode-locked Er-doped fiber laser without incorporating (equivalent) nonlinear saturable absorption effects. The laser has a sigma-type cavity and exhibits a higher threshold for single to bound...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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IEEE
2016-01-01
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Series: | IEEE Photonics Journal |
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Online Access: | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7493678/ |
Summary: | Stable bound soliton laser mode-locking is experimentally demonstrated in an environmentally stable hybrid mode-locked Er-doped fiber laser without incorporating (equivalent) nonlinear saturable absorption effects. The laser has a sigma-type cavity and exhibits a higher threshold for single to bound soliton mode-locking state transition. A nonlinear eigenstate analysis based on the master equation model and the concept of steady-state lasing gain is developed to more physically explain the observed mode-locking state transition phenomena. |
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ISSN: | 1943-0655 |