Dissipative Soliton Pulsations with Periods Beyond the Laser Cavity Round Trip Time

Date

2005

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Akhmediev, Nail
Soto-Crespo, Jose M
Grapinet, Melanie
Grelu, Philippe

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World Scientific Publishing Company

Abstract

We review recent results on periodic pulsations of the soliton parameters in a passively mode-locked fiber laser. Solitons change their shape, amplitude, width and velocity periodically in time. These pulsations are limit cycles of a dissipative nonlinear system in an infinite-dimensional phase space. Pulsation periods can vary from a few to hundreds of round trips. We present a continuous model of a laser as well as a model with parameter management. The results of the modeling are supported with experimental results obtained using a fiber laser.

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Keywords: Dissipative soliton; Fiber laser; Passive mode-locking; Soliton bifurcation

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Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics and Materials

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