Observation of Duration-Tunable Soliton Explosion in Passively Mode-Locked Fiber Laser

Observation of Duration-Tunable Soliton Explosion in Passively Mode-Locked Fiber Laser

We report on the first observation, to the best of our knowledge, of soliton explosions in an ultrafast fiber laser mode-locked by nonlinear polarization evolution. The soliton explosion is a transition state between stable mode-locking and noise-like pulses regimes. By tuning the waveplates and the...

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Main Authors: Pan Wang, Xiaosheng Xiao, Hang Zhao, Changxi Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2017-01-01
Series:IEEE Photonics Journal
Subjects:
Soliton explosions
mode-locked fiber lasers
pulse propagation and solitons.
Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8103742/
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spelling doaj-986d44f6caa84d218fbd66f840675fd62021-03-29T17:32:06ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552017-01-01961810.1109/JPHOT.2017.27724398103742Observation of Duration-Tunable Soliton Explosion in Passively Mode-Locked Fiber LaserPan Wang0Xiaosheng Xiao1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9368-9956Hang Zhao2Changxi Yang3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9972-6965State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Department of Precision Instruments, Tsinghua University, Beijing, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Department of Precision Instruments, Tsinghua University, Beijing, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Department of Precision Instruments, Tsinghua University, Beijing, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Department of Precision Instruments, Tsinghua University, Beijing, ChinaWe report on the first observation, to the best of our knowledge, of soliton explosions in an ultrafast fiber laser mode-locked by nonlinear polarization evolution. The soliton explosion is a transition state between stable mode-locking and noise-like pulses regimes. By tuning the waveplates and the spectral filter, the duration of soliton explosions is widely tunable from ~100 roundtrips to thousands of roundtrips. Our experimental results together with the numerical simulations reveal the dissipative nature of soliton explosions, and may be beneficial for further understanding of this striking phenomenon.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8103742/Soliton explosionsmode-locked fiber laserspulse propagation and solitons.
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author Pan Wang
Xiaosheng Xiao
Hang Zhao
Changxi Yang
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Xiaosheng Xiao
Hang Zhao
Changxi Yang
Observation of Duration-Tunable Soliton Explosion in Passively Mode-Locked Fiber Laser
IEEE Photonics Journal
Soliton explosions
mode-locked fiber lasers
pulse propagation and solitons.
author_facet Pan Wang
Xiaosheng Xiao
Hang Zhao
Changxi Yang
author_sort Pan Wang
title Observation of Duration-Tunable Soliton Explosion in Passively Mode-Locked Fiber Laser
title_short Observation of Duration-Tunable Soliton Explosion in Passively Mode-Locked Fiber Laser
title_full Observation of Duration-Tunable Soliton Explosion in Passively Mode-Locked Fiber Laser
title_fullStr Observation of Duration-Tunable Soliton Explosion in Passively Mode-Locked Fiber Laser
title_full_unstemmed Observation of Duration-Tunable Soliton Explosion in Passively Mode-Locked Fiber Laser
title_sort observation of duration-tunable soliton explosion in passively mode-locked fiber laser
publisher IEEE
series IEEE Photonics Journal
issn 1943-0655
publishDate 2017-01-01
description We report on the first observation, to the best of our knowledge, of soliton explosions in an ultrafast fiber laser mode-locked by nonlinear polarization evolution. The soliton explosion is a transition state between stable mode-locking and noise-like pulses regimes. By tuning the waveplates and the spectral filter, the duration of soliton explosions is widely tunable from ~100 roundtrips to thousands of roundtrips. Our experimental results together with the numerical simulations reveal the dissipative nature of soliton explosions, and may be beneficial for further understanding of this striking phenomenon.
topic Soliton explosions
mode-locked fiber lasers
pulse propagation and solitons.
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8103742/
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