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
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8103742/